HARRISBURG (PA)
KYW Newsradio
November 17, 2018
By Tony Romeo
As expected, the state legislature this past week wrapped up work in the current two-year session without resolving the fight over legislation sought by victims of child sex abuse.
The state Senate indicated it would return for one post-election day to re-elect leaders for the next session, and not to vote on legislation, and made good on that plan. Nonetheless, as members of the GOP Senate majority met behind closed doors, Cindy Leech of Johnstown stood in the hallway with a picture of her late son, a victim of clergy sex abuse and the drug abuse that followed.
“Just because they decided not to vote, we’re not going away,” Leech said. “We’re going to show them that we’re bound and determined.”
A short time later, the top-ranking state Senator, Republican Joe Scarnati, said not much had happened since the Senate had last met a month before.
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