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Pennsylvania Senate announces new committee chairs
2025年1月17日 · Four freshman senators have been tapped to serve in leadership roles on the state Senate’s standing committees for the 2025-2026 session, although most committee chairs in the Republican-controlled chamber will be unchanged from the previous session. Sens. Dawn Keefer (R-York) and Patty Kim (D ...
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2025年1月17日 · Pennsylvania Senate announces new committee chairs BY: John Cole - January 17, 2025 Four freshman senators have been tapped to serve in leadership roles on the state Senate’s standing committees for the 2025-2026 session, although most committee chairs in the Republican-controlled chamber will be unchanged from the previous session.
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2025年1月17日 · Pennsylvania Senate announces new committee chairs BY: John Cole - January 17, 2025 Four freshman senators have been tapped to serve in leadership roles on the state Senate’s standing committees for the 2025-2026 session, although most committee chairs in the Republican-controlled chamber will be unchanged from the previous session.
Pa. Democrats call on GOP state Senate leaders to raise minimum …
3 天之前 · Twenty one states raised their minimum wages on Jan. 1, but Pennsylvania was not among them.. The minimum wage, the lowest hourly wage employers can legally pay, has remained unchanged at $7.25 an hour since 2010, when …
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2025年1月9日 · MLK’s ‘beloved community’ has inspired social justice work for decades − what did he mean? BY: Capital-Star Guest Contributor - January 20, 2025 By Jason Oliver Evans, University of Virginia Since 1983, when President Ronald Reagan signed Martin Luther King Jr. Day into law, many Americans have observed the federal holiday to commemorate the life and legacy of the civil rights leader ...
Pa. House session opens with 'feel-good story' of bipartisanship …
The Pennsylvania House of Representatives began its new legislative session Tuesday like the previous session, with conditions ripe for partisan gridlock. Instead, a dose of pragmatism and rule changes to give the minority Republican Caucus a fighting chance to advance its …
The top 5 Pennsylvania Senate stories of 2024
2024年12月24日 · This year’s legislative session saw fewer new laws passed than any session in more than a decade, attributable in part to the partisan divide between the Democrat-controlled House and the Republican-controlled Senate. But there were some substantial pieces of legislation and changes to the budget that made it to the …
Pennsylvania General Assembly session draws to a close with …
2024年10月23日 · “That said, there is still time to work on critical legislation, including providing survivors of child sex abuse an opportunity to seek justice, ensuring protections from discrimination, a long-overdue cost of living increase to retired public servants, adequately funding our mass transit systems and helping counties count votes quickly and accurately with pre-canvassing, in addition to the ...
Will Pennsylvania’s economic rebound help deliver the crucial …
2024年10月31日 · By Mark Kreidler. The most recent comprehensive study of Pennsylvania’s surging economy was almost startling in its promise. The State of Working Pennsylvania report, released just before Labor Day, found that the state’s economic output was “significantly exceeding” pre-pandemic levels, unemployment rates were near 50-year lows, workers’ bargaining power was high, and working-class ...