#GetCovered: How I Got Health Insurance for the First Time in 6 Years It has been six years since I’ve had health insurance, and over 15 years and counting since I’ve been on a private insurance policy, but I am covered once again thanks to the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid Expansion in Pennsylvania. The last…
#PABudget: Don’t Bank on a Line Item Veto That Set Back Natural Gas Regulations & Campaign Promises
#PABudget: Don’t Bank on a Line Item Veto That Set Back Natural Gas Regulations & Campaign Promises During the budget stalemate, amendments designed to neuter the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s regulation of the natural gas industry were slipped into the budget framework that Governor Wolf and the Senate Caucuses agreed to. Since these deregulations…
#PABudget: Governor Wolf Tells House GOP That It’s Time to Stop Negotiating
#PABudget: Governor Wolf Tells House GOP That It’s Time to Stop Negotiating You can throw “turning on the lights to the Capitol Christmas Tree” on the list of items that have happened before the General Assembly passed a budget for Governor Tom Wolf to sign. After the lighting, the Governor made it known that he is…
Blustery Donald Trump vs. The Quiet Christian
Blustery Donald Trump vs. The Quiet Christian Before a cheering and whooping crowd in Mount Pleasant, S.C., Donald Trump, spewing the blustery rhetoric of a demagogue, declared that the United States should ban all Muslims from entering the country. He claimed to have Muslim friends who supported his position. He claimed that Muslims want “to change…
#PABudget: House Cancels Session Until Sunday Evening, Will There Be a Budget Next Week?
#PABudget: House Cancels Session Until Sunday Evening, Will There Be a Budget Next Week? Earlier today, the Raging Chicken Press caught wind that the House was going to have non-voting sessions Saturday and Sunday. Multiple sources confirm that the House has cancelled session until Friday at 5 PM, which means that there will most likely be…
Speaker Turzai has 99 Problems and Finishing the #PABudget A’int One
Speaker Turzai has 99 Problems and Finishing the #PABudget A’int One Earlier today, a fifteen to twenty rank and file House Democrats gathered on the 2nd floor balcony asking reporters “where is the House Speaker?” The Commonwealth is in a 164 day budget stalemate that looks to – or should – be ending soon. The House was…
Report: If No #PABudget, a New House Speaker?
Report: If No #PABudget, a New House Speaker? Over the weekend, the Raging Chicken Press caught wind of a confrontation between House Speaker Mike Turzai and Majority Leader David Reed. At the time, we stated that Mike Turzai wanted David Reed out of his post and vice versa. Capitolwire reporter Kevin Zwick has confirmed that there…
The End in the #PABudget Stalemate is Near?
The End in the #PABudget Stalemate is Near? There is a possibility that the end of the budget stalemate is near. Earlier today, I had the opportunity to catch up with a number of legislators and a couple of them believe that the Senate was going to strip the House GOP budget and amend it with…
#PABudget: More Insight into Turzai v. Reed and a Possible End to the Budget?
#PABudget: More Insight into Turzai v. Reed and a Possible End to the Budget? Over the weekend, it was reported that House Speaker Mike Turzai and Majority Leader David Reed got into a heated fight before Caucus had occurred. John Micek pointed out that there was a “schism” between the two that lead to a breakdown in…
Representative Fred Keller’s vs. The Whole #PABudget
Representative Fred Keller’s vs. The Whole #PABudget Wow. The tentative deal, though, came off its wheels over the weekend, when it became clear that House leaders couldn’t sell rank-and-file members on the finer details of the blueprint. In part, the larger budget negotiations were derailed by a debate about haircuts. “They want to tax haircuts. So…
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