Mark Scolforo | Associated Press
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Pennsylvania House Democrats are putting their freshly minted majority status to work in shutting down Republican efforts to make changes to legislation designed to let victims of childhood sexual abuse file otherwise outdated lawsuits.
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The top Republican in Pennsylvania's Democrat-controlled House is warning of potential chaos when state lawmakers reconvene next week, six weeks after they elected a speaker and left the Capitol without doing any other business.
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Voters who kept three Pittsburgh-area Pennsylvania House seats in Democratic hands this week effectively also flipped control away from the Republican majority that has run the chamber for more than a decade.
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Allegheny County voters are participating in special elections to fill three vacancies in the state House of Representatives. The results Tuesday may resolve a stalemate over majority control that's left the chamber in limbo for the past month.
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Speaker Mark Rozzi said in a lengthy interview Monday that he won’t necessarily step aside and support Democratic floor leader Joanna McClinton of Philadelphia to succeed him as speaker.
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A bipartisan work group assembled by the new speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives is starting its work in the politically riven chamber. Speaker Mark Rozzi said after its first meeting Tuesday that he's hopeful the group of three Republicans and three Democrats will aid him in developing House rules and compromise legislation.
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Democrat Josh Shapiro has become the 48th governor of Pennsylvania at the inaugural ceremony at the state Capitol.
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A Pennsylvania court says special elections to fill three vacancies in Democratic-leaning Pittsburgh area state House districts will be held together next month, with partisan control of the chamber at stake.
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A panel of Pennsylvania state judges is divided over whether a Republican-led effort to impeach and seek to remove Philadelphia’s progressive prosecutor meets legal standards.
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During arguments Wednesday, a lawyer for the Allegheny County Elections Bureau said ballots were ready to be printed, machines have been tested and most of the polling places and elections workers have been lined up for early February.