Top House Democrats said they were making progress, although they declined to name names of House Republicans willing to cross their leadership.
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Majority Leader Dave Reed told The Associated Press that he expected the vote Saturday.
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His remarks follow an overwhelming defeat in the House for proposed changes to Pennsylvania’s two large public-sector pension plans.
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Wolf, the Republican-controlled Senate and House Democrats are backing a $30.8 billion spending plan – a 6 percent spending increase – and the accompanying $1 billion-plus tax plan.
Wolf said Friday that he had obtained enough votes to get the taxes through the House, but the pension bill’s defeat pre-empted a tax vote.
Where only 11 House Republicans voted against a pension reform bill that Gov. Tom Wolf would up vetoing in July, a full 66 members of the 119-person GOP caucus opposed the bill considered Saturday.
But the Senate would also have to agree to a temporary plan and Corman said Senate leaders preferred searching for a full, 12-month budget.
There were a lot of ideas floated – the best seeming to be a decision to call off scheduled voting sessions in the state House and Senate to give rank-and-file lawmakers a day for cooling off while their leaders consulted. Reed, R-Indiana, declined to say how he would vote.
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“The while building is feeling the frustration”, he said.
Rep. Stephen Barrar, R-Delaware, said the size of the tax increase being requested by Wolf had shrunk dramatically since his multibillion-dollar request in March and that it was important that the stalemate come to an end.
Others warned the bill was vulnerable to a court challenge, and noted that it did not provide any immediate budget relief to school boards or lower the two pension systems’ unfunded liabilities.
Wolf administration spokesman Jeffrey Sheridan pounced on the email chain Sunday, charging that it was putting its own interests ahead of cash-strapped schools and non-profits. If it continues into the New Year, some schools have said they’ll have to close. “It’s long past time for a budget to happen”.
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But after a year in which the Democratic Governors Association, in support of Wolf, blasted the GOP lawmakers’ home districts with critical mailers and TV ads, Miskin said the administration shouldn’t be shocked at lingering hostility. “We’re entering the week of Christmas – we need to get this done now”.
