House Republicans held up the funding in July over transparency and fiscal fairness concerns, with GOP leader Bryan Cutler saying at a PA Press Club lunch Monday that a deal with Democrats has not progressed.
House GOP leader Bryan Cutler, R-Lancaster County, speaks at a PA Press Club luncheon on Sept. 18, 2023.Ten weeks after the Pennsylvania House deadlocked on funding the commonwealth’s four state-related universities, a path forward is still not certain, the body’s top Republican indicated Monday.
Funding for Pennsylvania’s four independent but state-subsidized universities – Penn State, Pitt, Lincoln, and Temple – is one area where House Republicans still hold sway, even assuming they remain in the minority. Pennsylvania’s constitution requires that appropriations to charities and educational institutions that are not directly state-controlled receive a two-thirds vote, or 136 members.
In addition to the schools freezing tuition, Cutler also said Republicans were seeking tighter right-to-know law requirements on the state-related universities, as well as evening out the amount of per-student aid to each school. In July, however, Bradford and other Democrats had voiced concern that many Republican members were voting against the funding because of political issues – objecting to universities’ research relating to abortion, for example – and that there may not be sufficient Republican support even if the fiscal fairness and transparency concerns raised by Cutler were worked out.
Cutler also voiced optimism that next week’s session with an evenly divided House would be a chance for bipartisanship, and that “we’re open to finding ways through the gridlock, but it cannot be a one-ways street.”
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