Despite Recent Gains, Women Continue to Be Underrepresented in Pennsylvania’s State Legislature
PA currently ranks 31 out of the 50 states with only 32.4% female state lawmakers, according to The Center for American Women and Politics.
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PA currently ranks 31 out of the 50 states with only 32.4% female state lawmakers, according to The Center for American Women and Politics.
Only one Republican and five Democrats agreed to participate. The remaining candidates vying to represent 10 House seats apparently couldn’t be bothered.
The GOP currently controls 57 legislative chambers, while Democrats control 41 (Nebraska’s unicameral legislature is nonpartisan). Only Pennsylvania currently has a split legislature.
“Rep. K.C. Tomlinson joined other MAGA Republicans by voting against free lunch for children in need, a heartless vote that will hit hardest the most impoverished student populations,” said the PA House Democratic Campaign Committee.
Every Republican state representative in Bucks County voted against the proposed law that would protect their constituents from blindly paying hidden fees.
Moms for Liberty isn’t the only dark money group pretending to be mom-led grassroots movement. And now there’s a new one with ties to Betsy DeVos.
HB 2370 charts a seven-year funding plan to ensure that the unconstitutional underfunding of school districts disproportionately represented by lower income and communities of color ends.
Several Bucks County Democrats are featured on their list highlighting their effort to expand the Democratic majority in the state House.
With the exception of a few dissident votes, local Republicans largely opposed common sense gun control reforms.
For freshman Republican lawmakers Hogan and Marcell, who joined Tomlinson, their very first vote in office was a display of bipartisanship to elect Democrat Mark Rozzi.
Democrats gain seats in the State House.
Philadelphia was on trial in Warminster Wednesday in what was Republican “political theater” desperately performed to stoke fear and pander for votes.
An interactive tool provided by the Committee of Seventy in collaboration with the Bucks County Beacon.