Legislative leaders returned to the Capitol on Sunday, a day after the GOP-controlled House killed public pension legislation that was Senate Republicans’ top priority. “This is unacceptable for leadership to think that a stop-gap budget – when the new budget will be presented in February, no less – will absolve them of their responsibilities”.
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“It defies reality”, Miskin said.
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Almost 20 Republicans joined with Democrats Tuesday afternoon in a preliminary vote to support the proposal backed by the Senate and Governor Tom Wolf.
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The main appropriations bill in a $30.8 billion spending package passed the Senate two weeks ago and is teed up for a final vote in the House.
“We still have a budget plan”.
In November, Wolf and House and Senate leaders agreed to a budget deal that revolved around the 6 percent spending increase and $1 billion-plus tax increase.
House Minority Leader Frank Dermody said in an interview that he had made it clear that democrats in the chamber did not support the bill as it was written, and had recommended changes that could result in his party’s members crossing over to vote for it. Along with opposition from House Democrats and moderate Republicans, it went down, 149-52.
The pension debate and debate over liquor sales are “sidetracking” state budget approval, said state Rep. Pat Harkins, of Erie, D-1st Dist. A Saturday vote on a key pension reform provision failed – four of nine Chester County State Representatives voted against the measure – wrecking a tentative budget deal.
Procedural votes were scheduled for later today.
Wolf has claimed he’s lined up the Republican and Democratic votes to pass his tax plan in the House and send it to the Senate.
The Democratic governor’s threat Monday came as Pennsylvania’s House GOP majority plans a vote later this week on an 11-month, $28.2 billion spending plan.
Ryan says nobody gets all of what they want in the current “divided government”, and he vows that the G-O-P will pick up where it left off next year.
“The truth is their slick maneuvers have forced local communities to shoulder the financial burden of funding the needs of their schools and human services”, Pashinski said.
“Their actions are reckless and irresponsible”, he said. “There’s a number of House members, both Democrats and Republicans, who agree that… a stopgap does not get us anywhere and we continue to just hang out in this town getting nothing done”.
The Harrisburg equivalent of the Wicked Witch’s flying monkeys are the many twists and turns in the budget process that began with Wolf’s early-March budget proposal.
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He added that the budget impasse should not have, “lasted this long, but we need a budget that actually funds those schools with real dollars and real revenue to back it up so that we have a balanced budget that makes the investments these schools need”.
