Nov. 20, 2020 /
![Pennsylvania House Republican Leaders Comment on FY 2020-21 Budget]()
HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania House of Representatives concluded the Fiscal Year 2020-21 budget process Friday with passage of a supplemental appropriation package that funds state government and related operations for the remaining seven months of the fiscal year.
Nov. 10, 2020 /
HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania House Republican Caucus Tuesday elected its legislative leaders for the 2021-22 Legislative Session.
Nov. 10, 2020 /
![House State Government Committee to Hold Hearings on 2020 Election]()
HARRISBURG – Interim Pennsylvania House State Government Committee Majority Chairman Seth Grove (R-Dover) announced Tuesday that the committee will begin holding hearings on the process undertaken in the 2020 election.
Nov. 09, 2020 /
![PA House Republicans to Unveil Leadership Team]()
WHAT: Members of the Pennsylvania House Republican Caucus will hold a press conference to announce the leadership team for the 2021-22 Legislative Session.
Nov. 06, 2020 /
![Benninghoff Comments on Election Integrity Concerns]()
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin) commented on the serious and legitimate questions being raised about the 2020 General Election:
Oct. 30, 2020 /
![Benninghoff Bill Protecting Survivors of Rape and Sexual Assault and their Families Becomes Law]()
HARRISBURG – Gov. Tom Wolf signed into law House Bill 1984 yesterday, legislation authored by Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin) that stands up for rape victims and their families by removing the requirement of having a surrogate parent lined up in order to terminate the rights of a perpetrator of rape or sexual assault that resulted in the birth of a child.
Oct. 14, 2020 /
![House Republicans Unveil Bills to Drive Commonwealth’s COVID Comeback]()
HARMONY – House Republicans unveiled a pro-jobs, recovery-focused legislative package designed to achieve a better normal. The initiative, “Commonwealth’s COVID Comeback,” would rebound the economy by incentivizing manufacturing with no new taxes or fees.
Oct. 09, 2020 /
![House Republicans Unveil Bills to Drive the Commonwealth’s COVID Comeback]()
WHAT: Rep. Josh Kail (R-Beaver/Washington), House Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin) and other state representatives will unveil a pro-jobs, recovery-focused legislative package designed to achieve Pennsylvania’s better normal. The initiative, “Commonwealth’s COVID Comeback,” would rebound the economy by incentivizing manufacturing with no new taxes or fees following the pandemic.
Oct. 06, 2020 /
![Benninghoff: Auditor General’s Findings Show Businesses Not Treated Fairly by Wolf Administration]()
HARRISBURG – Today, Auditor General Eugene DePasquale provided a status update on his ongoing audit of the Wolf administration’s business waiver process that was implemented following the governor’s March 19 economic shutdown of what he deemed to be “non-life-sustaining businesses.”
Oct. 06, 2020 /
![Benninghoff to Host Free Community Shredding Event this Saturday]()
BELLEFONTE – Rep. Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin) announced he will be hosting a free community shredding event this Saturday, Oct. 10, from 9-11 a.m. (or until the shredder is full).
Oct. 05, 2020 /
![Benninghoff Bill Taking a Stand for Rape Victims and Their Families Clears General Assembly, Heads to Gov. Wolf]()
HARRISBURG – Today, the Pennsylvania Senate unanimously House Bill 1984, legislation led by House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin) that stands up for rape victims and their families by removing the requirement of having an adoptive family lined up in order to terminate the rights of a perpetrator of rape or sexual assault that resulted in the birth of a child.
Sep. 29, 2020 /
![Helping small businesses, families isn’t ‘meaningless,’ Gov. Wolf]()
Pennsylvanians have rightly asked for bipartisanship in its government’s response to COVID-19 and the Pennsylvania General Assembly, and the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in particular, has delivered.
Sep. 23, 2020 /
![PA House Majority Leader Comments on PIAA Sports Bill Veto Override Vote]()
HARRISBURG – Today, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives failed to override Gov. Tom Wolf’s veto of House Bill 2787, legislation that would ensure decisions about school sports and spectators can be made at the local level.
Sep. 22, 2020 /
![PA House Speaker, Majority Leader: PA House Republicans Seek Stay of State Supreme Court Election Decision]()
HARRISBURG – Today, the Pennsylvania House Republican Caucus joined with the Pennsylvania Senate Republican Caucus in an Application for Stay of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s election decision in PA Democratic Party v. Boockvar.
Sep. 21, 2020 /
![PA House Majority Leader Benninghoff: House Will Vote to Override PIAA Veto]()
HARRISBURG – Today, Gov. Tom Wolf vetoed House Bill 2787, legislation that passed both the House and the Senate with a veto-proof bipartisan majority that would ensure decisions about the resumption of school sports and spectators can be made at the local level.
Sep. 17, 2020 /
![PA House Speaker, Majority Leader Comment on PA Supreme Court Decision]()
HARRISBURG – Today, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court sided with the Wolf administration and the Pennsylvania Democratic Party in allowing for ballots to be counted that are received up to three days following the election day deadline, for satellite election office locations and the use of drop boxes.
Sep. 16, 2020 /
![PA House Republicans and Democrats Call on Gov. Wolf to Sign PIAA Sports and Spectators Bill]()
HARRISBURG – Dozens of House Republicans joined together in a press conference Wednesday morning to call for Gov. Tom Wolf to sign House Bill 2787, legislation that will enshrine in law that decisions about school sports and spectators can be made at the local level.
Sep. 15, 2020 /
![PA House Republicans, Others to Call on Gov. Wolf to Sign House Bill 2787]()
WHO: House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre/Mifflin) along with Reps. Mike Reese (R-Westmoreland), Jesse Topper (R-Bedford/Fulton), Joe Emrick (R-Northampton) and others.
Sep. 14, 2020 /
![PA House Speaker, Majority Leader Praise Federal Court Decision Declaring Wolf-Levine Shutdown Orders Unconstitutional]()
HARRISBURG – Today, Judge William Stickman IV, a federal judge on the District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, ruled Gov. Tom Wolf’s and Health Secretary Rachel Levine’s congregate gathering, stay-at-home and business shutdown orders unconstitutional in the case of County of Butler v. Wolf.
Sep. 10, 2020 /
![PA House Majority Leader Benninghoff: House Will Hold Veto Override Vote on House Bill 2787 ‘as Soon as We Have the Chance’]()
HARRISBURG – Following House Bill 2787’s veto-proof bipartisan passage through the Senate on Wednesday, Gov. Tom Wolf pledged to veto the bill that would put into law that decisions about starting school sports and allowing spectators are to be made at the local level.