Post by Logan on Jan 28, 2016 0:04:54 GMT -6
Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf, legislative leaders meet with new focus on finishing budget, tabling contentious side issues
Remember that incomplete state budget?
Pennsylvania's Republican legislative leaders proposed a new way to try to tie it off Wednesday, hopefully before Gov. Tom Wolf launches debate on his 2016-17 proposal, which is now scheduled for a Feb. 9 unveiling.
Their new template is to finalize the incomplete line items - such as school funding levels, funding for legislative operations and aid to Penn State, Pitt and Temple - without any increase in the sales or personal income tax rates.
Wolf vetoed or amended those and other appropriations on Dec. 29 in order to force the Republicans who dominate the General Assembly back to the bargaining table for further negotiations on his priorities, which the governor felt were left under-funded.
In exchange for leaving the state's broad-based taxes alone now, the Republicans would drop any immediate insistence on public employee pension reform or liquor privatization.
Read more: www.pennlive.com/news/2016/01/gov_tom_wolf_legislative_leade.html
Remember that incomplete state budget?
Pennsylvania's Republican legislative leaders proposed a new way to try to tie it off Wednesday, hopefully before Gov. Tom Wolf launches debate on his 2016-17 proposal, which is now scheduled for a Feb. 9 unveiling.
Their new template is to finalize the incomplete line items - such as school funding levels, funding for legislative operations and aid to Penn State, Pitt and Temple - without any increase in the sales or personal income tax rates.
Wolf vetoed or amended those and other appropriations on Dec. 29 in order to force the Republicans who dominate the General Assembly back to the bargaining table for further negotiations on his priorities, which the governor felt were left under-funded.
In exchange for leaving the state's broad-based taxes alone now, the Republicans would drop any immediate insistence on public employee pension reform or liquor privatization.
Read more: www.pennlive.com/news/2016/01/gov_tom_wolf_legislative_leade.html