November 9, 2018 News for the Week of November 5
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November 9, 2018 News for the week of November 5 The House is scheduled to return to Harrisburg for leadership elections on November 13 and the Senate will do the same on November 14. As of today, no additional voting session days have been scheduled before the end of the 2017-18 legislative session, but since neither chamber has 2018 Session Days adjourned, additional voting days can and may be added before the for the Pennsylvania November 30 deadline. General Assembly 2018 Election Results The House and Senate are Last week, Governor Tom Wolf won his reelection to a second term. scheduled for session on Wolf’s running mate John Fetterman won his election bid and will the following days: become the Commonwealth’s new lieutenant governor. United States Senator Bob Casey (Pennsylvania) also won his reelection bid. House November 13 In Pennsylvania, the Republicans will retain control of the General Senate Assembly in the 2019-20 legislative session despite losing five seats in November 14 the Senate and 14 seats in the House. Members of both chambers are scheduled to reconvene this week to select their leaders for the new session. PSATS congratulates all election winners and urges all township officials to contact their newly elected and incumbent legislators to offer congratulations and assistance on any issues affecting local government. General Assembly Looking for updates on In the General Assembly, all 203 of the seats in the House of legislation & news related to Representatives and one-half or 25 of the 50 seats in the Senate were up townships? for election. Three senators and 28 members of the House of Be sure to ‘Like’ us on Representatives did not seek reelection. Four members of the House Facebook at (Representative Davis, Representative Hill, Representative Quinn, and www.facebook.com/psats Representative Ward) ran for a seat in the Senate. Follow us on Twitter Senate Results http://twitter.com/PSATS In the state Senate, the 25 even-numbered district seats were up for And, as always, check out election. Five incumbents ran unopposed and 20 seats were contested. www.psats.org for the latest The Democrats gained five seats, but the Republicans will continue to updates hold the majority in the chamber, with a 29-21 lead. 1 A breakdown of the election results show that 11 Republican Incumbents will return to the Senate in January. They are: Senator Robert Tomlinson (R- 6) Senator Ryan Aument (R-36) Senator Patrick Browne (R-16) Senator Mario Scavello (R-40) Senator Lisa Baker (R-20) Senator Camera Bartolotta (R-46) Senator Robert Mensch (R-24) Senator Michael Folmer (R-48) Senator Patrick Stefano (R-32) Senator Michelle Brooks (R-50) Senator Jacob Corman (R-34) A total of 7 Democratic incumbents were reelected to the Senate. They are: Senator Christine Tartglione (D- 2) Senator Lisa Boscola (D-18) Senator Arthur Haywood (D- 4) Senator John Blake (D-22) Senator Anthony Williams (D-8) Senator Wayne Fontana (D-42) Senator John Yudichak (D-14) Two incumbents were defeated: Senator John Rafferty (R-44) and Senator Thomas McGarrigle (R-26). There will be 7 new members of the Senate. They are: Steven Santarsiero (D-10) Judith Ward (R-30) Maria Collett (D-12) Lindsey Williams (D-38) Timothy Kearney (D-26) Katie Muth (D-44) Kristen Phillips-Hill (R- 28) House Results Control of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives will remain with the Republicans, with a 108- 95 majority. Eight incumbents were defeated: Representative Kate Harper (R-61), Representative Quigley (R- 146), Representative Rebecca Corbin (R-155), Representative Warren Kampf (R-157), Representative Eric Roe (R-158), Representative Alexander Charlton (R-165), Representative Duane Milne (R-167), and Representative Helen Tai (D-178), There will be 35 new members of the House. They are: Robert Merski (D-2) James Gregory (R-80) Joshua Kail (R-15) Jonathan Hershey (R-82) Meghan Schroeder (R-29) Paul Jones (R-93) Lori Mizgorski (R-30) Andrew Lewis (R-105) Michael Puskaric (R-39) Kyle Mullins (D-112) Natalie Mihalek Stuck (R-40) Wendy Ullman (D-143) Valerie Gaydos (R-44) Todd Polinchock R-144) Timothy O’Neal (R-48) Joseph Ciresi (D-146) Steven Malagari (R-54) Joseph Webster (D-150) Laura Hanbidge (D-61) Ben Sanchez (D-153) James Struzzi (R-62) Danielle Otten (D-155) James Rigby (R-71) Melissa Shusterman (D-157) Dan Williams (D-74) Christina Sappey (D-158) Stephanie Borowicz (R-76) David Delloso (D-162) 2 Jennifer Omara (D-165) Malcolm Kenyatta (D-181) Kristine Howard (D-167) Torren Ecker (R-193) Joseph Hohenstein (D-177) Barbara Gleim (R-199) Wendi Thomas (R-178) Pennsylvania Congressional Delegation In races for Pennsylvania’s 18-member delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives, the Republicans and Democrats will split control 9-9. Five Pennsylvania Congressional seats flipped from Republican to Democrat. One incumbent lost reelection (Keith Rothfus R-17). Ten Incumbents won reelection. They are: Brian Fitzpatrick (R-1) Lloyd Smucker (R-11) Brendan Boyle (D-2) Thomas Marino (R-12) Dwight Evans (D-3) Glenn Thompson (R-15) Matthew Cartwright (D-8) Conor Lamb (D-17) Scott Perry (R-10) Michael Doyle (D-18) The Pennsylvania delegation will have 8 new members. They are: Madeline Dean (D-4) Daniel Meuser (R-9) Mary Scanlon (D-5) John Joyce (R-13) Christina Houlahan (D-6) Guy Reschenthaler (R-14) Susan Wild (D-7) George Kelly (R-16) Guidance on Traffic Signal Maintenance from PennDOT The state Department of Transportation recently issued guidance regarding the procurement of maintenance and repair of traffic signals using Liquid Fuels Tax Funds. The conclusion was that these expenditures were required to follow the advertising, bidding, and contracting requirements. A memorandum will be sent to all townships from the state Department of Community and Economic Development in the coming weeks. Questions can be directed to PennDOT. Looking for this week’s issue of the Pennsylvania Bulletin? Click here 3 .