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You are here: Home / Archive JRT / Journalists Roundtable: October 24, 2019

Reporting this week by Spotlight PA and The Caucus detailed how campaign funds are spent for dinners, trips and bar tabs by some of the General Assembly’s most powerful politicians, and in some cases by legislative employees using campaign credit cards. An Election Code bill to expand voting options was amended after the story broke with a provision that would have made campaign finance oversight more difficult. Instead of unvouchered expenses being overseen by the Department of State’s Election Bureau, the amended bill would require reporters to contact each campaign to seek receipts detailing expenses. A heartbeat abortion bill, which prohibits abortions after six weeks, was introduced in both the House and Senate, prompting Gov. Tom Wolf to vow he’d veto it if it reached his desk. It was also the one year anniversary of the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting, and the General Assembly has yet to pass a bill know as a red flag gun law, which would require individuals deemed a threat to themselves or others to surrender their firearms. To discuss these issues are Elizabeth Hardison, a reporter with the PA Capital-Star; Angela Couloumbis, an investigative reporter with the Philadelphia Inquirer and Spotlight PA; and Katie Meyer, Capitol Bureau Chief with WITF-FM and Host of the "State of the State" Podcast with PA Post. Our host is Francine Schertzer.

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