Published June 28. 2019 05:35AM
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania House is wrapping up budget season votes, a day after grinding to a halt over a critical education bill.
The Republican-controlled chamber returned to session Friday, two days from the annual deadline, working to send Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf the last of the bills that together make up a $34 billion compromise budget package.
Their first vote was to pass an education bill that had failed late Thursday, when dozens of Republicans joined nearly all Democrats in voting against it, but for different reasons. The vote was 160 to 39.
Wolf’s office says he’ll be signing bills later Friday.
A pedestrian walks by the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Friday, June 28, 2019. The Pennsylvania House is working to wrap up final budget-season votes two days until the fiscal-year deadline, the morning after grinding to a halt over a critical education bill. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)