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For more than 13 months, Wolf largely acted alone in issuing socioeconomic coronavirus restrictions under his emergency powers, as well as via the state s 1955 Disease Prevention and Control Act, which irked the legislature and many Pennsylvania businessowners affected by the lockdowns and the at-times abrupt nature of new, additional restrictions.
The first new amendment essentially provides the legislature the ability to end emergency declarations by majority vote, while the second requires the governor to return to the legislature to seek renewal of emergency orders at the 21-day mark.
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HARRISBURG Pennsylvania voters have approved two ballot questions that would curtail the governor’s emergency powers, a victory for Republican lawmakers in what was widely seen as a referendum on the Wolf administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Unofficial results show 54% of voters backed amending the state constitution to allow a simple majority of lawmakers to terminate a disaster declaration at any time. Currently, such a declaration can only be ended with the governor’s consent or with support from two-thirds of the General Assembly.
Roughly the same percentage of voters approved a proposal that limits a disaster declaration to 21 days, instead of 90, and transfers power to extend an emergency order from the governor to the legislature. The Associated Press projected Wednesday morning that voters had approved both measures, with 73% of the total estimated votes counted.
Just before Pelosi’s House approved a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection Wednesday, a woman who yelled “Bring Nancy Pelosi out here now. We want to hang that f ing b tch” was charged in a Pennsylvania court.
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