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• Who's playing budget games?

  As many expected, Senate Republicans fell short in their effort to override several of the Governor's line-item vetoes in Senate Bill 850 (the state budget). Thirty-three votes total were needed for override, and only one Democrat, Sen. Lisa Boscola... Posted Aug 20 2009, 08:46 AM by PA Votes Editor with | with no comments Filed under: budget, Rendell, Boscola, Mellow

• Attempt at Overriding Rendell's Vetoes

  According to Patriot-News journalist Charlie Thompson , the Senate Republicans will attempt to override Governor Rendell's vetoes of several line items in Senate Bill 850 (the state budget, a.ka. the "bridge budget"). A veto override requires... Posted Aug 19 2009, 06:48 AM by PA Votes Editor with | with no comments Filed under: budget, Rendell, veto, override

• Rendell Line-item Vetoes Budget

  A state budget was finally sent to Gov. Rendell's desk ( Senate Bill 850 ), which passed with only a handful of negative votes in the House. However, the Governor chose to use his power of the line-item veto to "blue-line" all spending in... Posted Aug 06 2009, 07:14 AM by PA Votes Editor with | with no comments Filed under: budget, Rendell

• Rendell breaks up Conference Committee

  Calling the budget Conference Committee of six legislative leaders a "circus," Gov. Rendell has intervened by inviting Sen. Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi and House Majority Appropriations Committee Chairman Dwight Evans to the mansion for... Posted Jul 31 2009, 06:58 AM by PA Votes Editor with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: budget, Rendell, Pileggi

• Budget Update: House to Senate: NO

  The House has rejected the Senate's amendments to the state budget (HB 1416), which pared spending down even more, to $27.1 billion. The vote was 49-150 (I hope to have the precise roll call up shortly, my apologies for the delay). What happens next... Posted Jul 22 2009, 06:03 AM by PA Votes Editor with | with no comments Filed under: budget, taxes, Rendell

• A Not So Lame Duck

  Political lexicographers may have to render the term "lame duck" obsolete thanks to Ed Rendell. The term, used in the context of Pennsylvania's Governor, refers to a politician who his close to leaving office due to a term limit and has... Posted Jul 13 2009, 07:11 AM by PA Votes Editor with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: budget, Rendell, lame duck

• Rendell's 16% income tax hike would cost 24,000 jobs

  Using the Pennsylvania State Tax Analysis Modeling Program (PA-STAMP), an economic modeling program developed by the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University, the Commonwealth Foundation projects that a 16% increase in the PIT (from a rate of 3.07... Posted Jun 17 2009, 07:15 AM by PA Votes Editor with | with no comments Filed under: budget, Rendell, tax hike, tax increase, Commonwealth Foundation

• Gov Refuses Budget Debate with Lt. Gov

  Never one to turn down an opporunity to be on camera, or engage a political street fight, Gov. Rendell has curiously turned down an invitation from Harrisburg's public television station, WITF, to debate Lt. Gov./Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati... Posted Jun 16 2009, 07:00 AM by PA Votes Editor with | with no comments Filed under: budget, Rendell