First ballot test of governorâs pandemic powers starts in Pennsylvania
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HARRISBURG - Republican lawmakers across the country have tried to roll back the emergency powers that governors wielded during the COVID-19 pandemic, as they ordered businesses shut, mask-wearing in public and students home for distance learning.
Pennsylvania’s Legislature is now taking its case to the ballot.
In the first vote of its kind since the coronavirus outbreak, voters statewide will decide twin constitutional amendments that would give lawmakers much more power over disaster declarations, to apply whether the emergency is another pandemic or natural disaster.
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So, of course, even the good news of ending them created contention.
This, the letter said, would let businesses, especially in tourism and hospitality, really kick-off the summer season, cash in on a holiday weekend and jumpstart efforts to recoup pandemic-related losses.
Pennsylvania brings nation’s first ballot test of governor’s pandemic powers
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Pennsylvania’s Legislature is now taking its case to the ballot.
In the first vote of its kind since the coronavirus outbreak, voters statewide will decide twin constitutional amendments that would give lawmakers much more power over disaster declarations, to apply whether the emergency is another pandemic or natural disaster.
The questions were placed on Tuesday’s primary ballot by the Republican-controlled Legislature, which has had a long-running feud with the state’s Democratic governor over his emergency actions during the pandemic.
First ballot test of governorâs pandemic powers starts in PA
By MARC LEVY Associated Press,Updated May 13, 2021, 5:15 p.m.
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Protesters demonstrated during a rally against Pennsylvania s coronavirus stay-at-home order in April 2020. Republican lawmakers across the country have tried to roll back the emergency powers that governors wielded during the COVID-19 pandemic. On Tuesday, Pennsylvaniaâs GOP-controlled Legislature took its case to voters, in twin constitutional amendments on the primary ballot that would give lawmakers much more power over disaster declarations, whether another pandemic or a natural disaster.Matt Rourke/Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa.â Republican lawmakers across the country have tried to roll back the emergency powers that governors wielded during the COVID-19 pandemic, as they ordered businesses shut, mask-wearing in public, and students home for distance learning.