PA Bill Number: HB829
Title: In preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions;
Description: An Act amending the act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), known as the Liquor Code, in preliminary provisions, further providing for definitions;
Last Action: Signed in House
Last Action Date: Jul 3, 2024
Wake-up Call: Pa. Dem congressional candidates talk gun control with Giffords :: 09/14/2018
Good morning. Former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords and her husband brought their nationwide tour — focused on electing congressional candidates who support tougher gun laws — to Pennsylvania in recent days.
Giffords, who founded a gun-control advocacy group after she was shot in the head in 2011, campaigned with Chrissy Houlahan in Chester County on Friday. Her husband headed out to suburban Pittsburgh to stump with Democrat Conor Lamb.
VoteVets co-hosted the tour, which backed candidates who are military veterans.
Houlahan is widely expected to flip the formerly Republican-held 6th District seat, which Ryan Costello is retiring from at the end of the year. Lamb, a Marine veteran elected in a March special election, is running against Republican Keith Rothfus in a new district as a result of the redrawn congressional map.
Lamb told the crowd at the gun-violence round table, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, that the current Congress won’t act on “even the most common sense things, things most anyone would consider uncontroversial. It will go down in history as being one of the most unproductive.”
“Massive amounts of money” pours into campaign coffers from the gun lobby to both Republicans and Democrats, Mr. Lamb said. “I have seen the gridlock that people back home talk about metaphorically.”
The Wall Street Journal came to Houlahan’s event, as the newspaper wrote about the role Pennsylvania’s congressional races are playing in the national battle for control of the U.S. House.
And more of today’s political headlines …
Gov. Tom Wolf reported about $414,000 in adjusted gross income last year and nearly $1.3 million in charitable donations, according to tax returns he made available for the Associated Press to review. Republican gubernatorial nominee Scott Wagner has declined to release his tax return.
Other state attorneys general are taking a close look at Pennsylvania's sweeping grand jury report on child sexual abuse in Roman Catholic Church dioceses, the AP reports.
In New Jersey, football fans had their wallets open as the pro football season arrived after sports betting became legal.
And a 183-page journal, which painstakingly depicts the inner workings of the third session of the General Assembly, is now back in Pennsylvania.
