RENDELL DOUBTS PA WILL RECEIVE FMAP MONEY

According to an WITF article, Governor Rendell is planning to try to resurrect some of his policy proposals that weren’t adopted by the General Assembly, if Congress doesn’t pass a federal medical funding bill. Rendell admits prospects for receiving the $850 million that the commonwealth’s budget banks on are growing bleak. He says if he’s forced to cut the money out of the spending plan he signed into law this month, he’ll ask lawmakers to reconsider setting caps on the vendor sales discount the state gives to companies who file taxes on time. Click here to read the WITF article.

DEWEESE TO STAND TRIAL

According to an article in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Rep. Bill DeWeese (D-Greene) told a grand jury in December that his state-paid aides regularly campaigned during business hours from their desks in state offices. A transcript of that testimony was read Monday during a preliminary hearing on charges that Mr. DeWeese illegally used state resources for political gain. Asked whether he was concerned that political work was being done on state time, Mr. DeWeese told grand jurors that it wasn’t unusual. “That was

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