Group of Pa. Republicans wields power in key votes

From the PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE:

Republicans have a majority in the state House, but they can’t get everything they want.

The House now has 112 Republicans, which is more than enough to get the minimum of 102 votes needed to approve bills and send them to the Senate.

But 12 to 15 of the House GOP caucus members “are holding the other members hostage and thwarting their will” on bills to change the prevailing wage law and to get the state out of the business of selling liquor and wine, complained Matthew Brouillette, president of an influential conservative group called the Commonwealth Foundation…

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