(WHTM) — Pennsylvania’s budget was late, and critics say lawmakers’ accomplishments have been light. Is it time for one of the nation’s most expensive full-time legislatures to go part-time? Yes, say ...

With each passing day of the Pennsylvania budget impasse, those who depend on funds from the state are getting more desperate. Up until this point, millions of dollars have already gone unpaid to the ...

In a final hearing in the State House about Governor Josh Shapiro’s new $53.2 billion budget, Pennsylvania’s Budget Secretary defended the plan from questioning members of the state legislature.

An automatic cost of living adjustment bumped state lawmakers' salaries to $113,000 per year, for rank and file members. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, Pennsylvania ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro called for the state legislature to send him a framework for making "skill games" legal and taxed in the commonwealth.

Pennsylvania has the largest full-time state legislature in the country, with 253 well-compensated state representatives and senators. Yet it has been unable to fulfill one of its primary missions: ...

Pennsylvania lawmakers reached a deal on a state budget on Wednesday, Nov. 12, to end a four-month stalemate that held up critical funding to school districts, local governments and other agencies.

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The Republican legislature of Pennsylvania can only see the dollar costs that are in front of them. Most all of them ignore the background costs of their stubbornness. They fail to take responsibility ...

Pennsylvania State Capitol building in Harrisburg on July 26, 2023. Control of the Pennsylvania General Assembly will be on the ballot in 2026, setting up an expensive and far-reaching fight for the ...