House GOP leaders, however, put the pension legislation up for a vote, and then went back on their commitment to run the tax bill Saturday.
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A key House committee on Monday approved a temporary budget to distribute interim funding to struggling school districts and nonprofits, setting the stage for the latest showdown with Gov. Wolf and Senate Republicans over how to end the state’s 174-day budget impasse.
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House Republicans had said earlier in the weekend that they would ready a short-term spending bill, after efforts to pass a full year’s budget were dealt a major blow during a Saturday voting session.
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He said he was told by republicans that democratic votes were not necessary to push it through.
The pension debate and debate over liquor sales are “sidetracking” state budget approval, said state Rep. Pat Harkins, of Erie, D-1st Dist.
“This gives us enough time without a gun pointed to folks’ heads…to actually sit around a table and maybe having a little bit calmer discussion on how to achieve that goal”, he said.
“We are confident we have the votes to pass a revenue package and the rest of the budget bills”, Wolf’s press secretary, Jeffrey Sheridan, said in a statement. Higher taxes on cigarettes, smokeless tobacco products and banks could also be part of the legislation.
The vote is a win for unions that represent teachers and government workers. It has remained at 6 percent since 1968.
“Pennsylvania needs a budget”, Schreiber said.
House Majority Leader Dave Reed, R-Indiana, who argued strongly for the pension bill, said the next move will be to advance a stopgap budget.
Not long after, the Senate voted 65-33 to send the entire package to Obama’s desk, and lawmakers began rushing out the Capitol’s exits to catch flights back home with Congress adjourning until January.
Voting for the bill in the House were 150 Republicans and 166 Democrats, while 95 Republicans and 18 Democrats opposed it. Ryan relied on Democratic votes to help pass the measure as Boehner often had to do.
State Rep. Stephen Bloom, R-Cumberland, said he’s going to do his best to stop that from occurring.
Which has led to Wolf getting some of what he wanted while agreeing to modest public pension reform and some changes to the way the state sells wine and spirits – both GOP priorities.
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The legislation pairs two enormous bills: a $1.14 trillion government-wide spending measure to fund every Cabinet agency through next September, and a $680 billion tax package extending dozens of breaks touching all sectors of the economy, making several of them permanent and tossing the entire cost onto the deficit.
