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Lawmakers consider options after state budget defeat

He said he was told by republicans that democratic votes were not necessary to push it through.

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Gov. Tom Wolf says he’s pleased, but that there’s still a ways to go after signs of a breakthrough in Pennsylvania’s budget stalemate emerged three days before Christmas.


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Following a number of complex procedural votes and challenges, even some House members needed clarification as to what was happening Tuesday afternoon.


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“We’re negotiating”, said House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bill Adolph, R-Delaware.

Pennsylvania is one of just two states along with IL still fighting over a budget for the fiscal year that began July 1.

Coupled with tax provisions that House leaders stuffed into the spending bill to attract votes, the legislation would cost the government an estimated $680 billion over the next decade.

This remains fragile though because some of the bills have yet to be finalized, including the tax bill – which could include an increase in the state’s 3.07 percent personal income tax or the state’s 6 percent sales tax, among others as well as removing exemptions to some products or services not now subject to the sales tax.

But House Republicans revolted against the size of the tax and spending bills.

But House Democratic Leader Frank Dermody of Allegheny County called on his House colleagues to “stop fooling around” and to quit playing “silly games” that stood in the way of casting a vote on a 2015-16 spending plan.

“Let’s take steps – as the legislation we’ll consider proposed – to support more jobs, more opportunity, and more economic growth”, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said on the Senate floor.

Many on each side saw the budget deal as the best they could get under divided government. “We risk not having a budget for an indefinite period of time”.

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“I think there are a lot of other things in question…We still don’t have a pension bill…We still haven’t seen a tax package from the Senate or from the administration”, Mr. Reed said.

Paul, who has performed better in the last two GOP debates but is still stuck in the bottom of the polls, noted that he voted against the bill because he usually doesn’t support “these enormous bills that no one has a chance to read”.

A temporary rule adopted by the House on Tuesday allowed the bill to advance with a simple majority vote, instead of the usual required sum of 102 votes.

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The House’s huge Republican majority is opposing practically every element of a budget deal their leaders helped negotiate. House GOP leaders, however, went back on their commitment to run the tax bill Saturday. Unlike Christiana, he said he supports the framework budget. “If that’s not possible, then new revenue is off the table as well, and we’re going to have to plan accordingly”, Reed told reporters after the vote. Once Wolf has the bill on his desk, Taylor said, the Legislature can get back to work on passing a pension reform bill.

House kills pension bill, leaving budget deal in tatters