Kate Philips
Kate Philips
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We need to move forward with a meeting of the governors and move forward with the project.
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Plans are under way to perform background checks. The background checks will not only protect the citizens of Pennsylvania but also other evacuees.
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This was not money taken away from roads and bridges, so that's not the truth.
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There is no functional difference between a wire-based phone call and a wireless phone call, so they should be taxed the same way. Cellular providers have chosen to pass the tax to their consumers. They could have chosen to absorb all or some of the tax as a cost of doing business.
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He is waiting on the folks from New Jersey to move forward with the dredging project.
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He has several favorites and looks forward to sampling each of them during his tour.
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We hope it doesn't come to that. But, at the end of the day, we cannot put the port (of Philadelphia) at an economic disadvantage.
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The overall funding is still less than half of what is needed to comply with (NCLB), leaving the burden on states and local taxpayers.
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I would not at all characterize the governor as being scared of him by any measure. Both are strong personalities. Both have strong opinions about what is right and wrong. They both have the good of the people in mind, but they're cut from two different cloths. I think they respect each other. They are both very powerful men.
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Students joining friends their age for graduation ceremonies can be a very special moment in their development, and the governor believes this bill has great merit.
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The benefits per person would not outweigh the cost to the greater commonwealth, at first glance.
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They made good progress and the governor believes there is a general commitment by all four caucuses to work over the next two weeks to craft a compromise.
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It's a backward and wrong direction. It's putting our progress in reverse.
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This is not unique, by any means. We don't believe that it's inappropriate, either, and at the end of the day he seems to be selectively choosing Judge Baldwin as a target for who knows what.