Knowles Votes to Restore Funding to Essential Organizations
HARRISBURG – In an effort to restore some state funding to Pennsylvania’s human service organizations and schools, Rep. Jerry Knowles (R-Berks/Carbon/Schuylkill) today voted in favor of overriding several of Gov. Tom Wolf’s vetoes to the state budget. After the votes today, Knowles made the following statement:
“Rape crisis and domestic violence centers, cancer screening services, and PHEAA grants to students are just a few of the critical services that are being limited and in some cases eliminated to the people in our communities. They cannot provide these services without state funding. For that reason, I voted to override the governor’s veto to get these needed dollars to those entities.
“I hope the governor realizes the mess he’s made with his full-budget veto. The General Assembly handed him a balanced budget in June and he decided to veto the whole thing. He even made comments at that time questioning why an on-time state budget was a major priority. We are in this mess today solely due to his decision to veto the full budget. This isn’t a political science experiment; this is real people we are talking about and real situations vulnerable people depend on us to address.”
For more information about this, or any other legislative topic, contact Knowles’ district office in Tamaqua at 570-668-1240, or in Hamburg at 610-562-3411.
Representative Jerry Knowles
124th District
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
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