Kara Jeffers

Pennsylvania lawmakers voted on budget bills and public transit funding proposals this week—but nothing had the bipartisan support to get over the finish line.

This afternoon, House Democrats voted against a budget bill and transit bill the Republican-controlled Senate sent them last evening.

House Leader Rep. Matt Bradford, a Democrat from Montgomery County, remains optimistic.

“We are willing to work with the Senate on all of these issues, but what we can't do is delay and dither,” Bradford said.

After a flurry of legislative activity this week— nothing official was accomplished. The Pennsylvania state budget is still 43 days late with no final product on the table.

The House sent a $50 billion state budget bill to the Senate in July; then on Monday, sent a separate pu

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