No Budget Yet: Pa. House Majority Starts ‘Review’ of Senate/Wolf Plan

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Updated on July 28, 2017 at 9:28 AMPosted on July 27, 2017 at 7:49 PM

By Charles Thompson (cthompson@pennlive.com)

This ain’t over.

That was the no-so-subtle subtext of a memo sent by leaders of the Pennsylvania House’s Republican majority to their 120-member caucus Thursday, hours after the Senate passed a $2.2 billion revenue package that included about $530 million in new taxes.

The Senate package – including new levies on natural gas production and consumption – passed through that chamber Thursday morning after several weeks of closed-door talks with Gov. Tom Wolf’s senior staff.

The Senate votes represented a brief moment of success in what has turned into a frustrating summer in Harrisburg.

But the House GOP leadership – which took a no-tax detour from those talks early last week – is not on board, so there is no ready-made expectation for what the next step will be.

Read more at http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/07/cold_war_house_majority_starts.html.

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