Senate Appropriations Committee Approves Yaw Measure Regulating Lawn Fertilizer Application, Updating 1956 Act
April 28, 2020
A bill aimed at modernizing Pennsylvania’s 1956 Fertilizer Act was unanimously approved today by the Senate Appropriations Committee, according to prime sponsor, Sen. Gene Yaw (R-23).
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Budget Hearing Q&A: Budget Secretary
March 04, 2020
I asked about transfers from the Race Horse Development Fund and the use of those funds to support PASSHE and the need to raise the threshold for the prevailing wage requirement during the #PASenate #PABudget hearing with Budget Secretary Jen Swails.
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Budget Hearing Q&A: Environmental Protection (DEP) (Part 2)
March 04, 2020
While residents are forced to pay stormwater management fees, some state agencies are refusing to pay. That & a local gas drilling ban were the topics of my #PASenate #PAbudget hearing questions with @PennsylvaniaDEP.
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Budget Hearing Q&A: Environmental Protection (DEP) (Part 1)
March 04, 2020
At the #PASenate #PAbudget hearing with @PennsylvaniaDEP, I questioned Secretary Patrick McDonnell about Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts, oversight & measuring the results of PA’s efforts vs. those of MD & VA.
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Budget Hearing Q&A: Penn College/Thaddeus Stevens College/Community Colleges
March 03, 2020
During a #PASenate #PAbudget hearing with @PennCollege, @thaddeusstevens and @NorthamptonComm, I asked how the institutions are working to “right-size” programs for students.
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Budget Hearing Q&A: Conservation & Natural Resources (Part 2)
March 03, 2020
I told @DCNRnews Secretary Cindy Dunn that DCNR needs to focus projects to reduce runoff where they’re most needed, as part of Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts. #PASenate #PAbudget
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Budget Hearing Q&A: State-Related Universities
March 03, 2020
Demographics are crucial in determining college costs. State-related universities have increased competition for declining enrollment, so I wanted to know how they plan to right-size their operations. #PASenate #PABudget hearings.
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Budget Hearing Q&A: Penn State Ag Research & Ag Extension
March 02, 2020
At a #PASenate #PABudget hearing on Penn State’s @agsciences & @psuextension, I asked farms need to do to reduce sediment and nitrogen runoffs and to how to encourage best practices to protect the Chesapeake Bay.
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Budget Hearing Q&A: Penn School of Veterinary Medicine
March 02, 2020
During the #PASenate #PABudget hearing with @pennvet, I asked about the school’s dual enrollment programs in health care and social services.
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Budget Hearing Q&A: Agriculture
March 02, 2020
During the #PASenate #PABudget hearing with @PAAgriculture, I asked about efforts to meet the EPA’s Chesapeake Bay watershed requirements and the impact of MS4 on farmers.
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Budget Hearing Q&A: PennDOT
February 25, 2020
At the #PASenate #PAbudget hearing with @PennDOTnews, I asked Acting Secretary Yassmin Gramian about why the department does some projects with PennDOT employees rather than use private-sector contractors.
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Budget Hearing Q&A: LCB
February 25, 2020
During a #PASenate #PABudget hearing with the PA Liquor Control Board, I questioned a $475 million no-bid contract that was awarded to an out-of-state company for warehousing and distribution in the southeast.
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