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House tables multiple benefit-integrity amendments after floor debate
Summary
The Pennsylvania House voted to lay several proposed benefit-integrity amendments on the table after floor debate about whether to wait for potential federal changes. Each motion to table passed by narrow margins.
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania House on June 25 voted to lay on the table multiple floor amendments aimed at benefit-integrity changes to state-administered public benefits, after members sparred over whether to proceed while Congress may still change federal law.
Lawmakers debated several amendments (labeled a01171, a01174, a01175, a01211, a01215, a01216 and others) proposed during consideration of a larger bill; the majority moved repeatedly to table them under House rules. Representative Schlossberg moved to table multiple amendments, and the motions carried by narrow margins, typically recorded as 102 ayes to 101 nays on the motions where the clerk recorded the counts.
The argument to table was advanced by Representative Schlossberg,…
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