HARRISBURG, Feb. 23 – Speaker of the House Mark Rozzi released the following statement outlining multiple proposed changes to the House operating rules for the regular session beginning next week to work toward more bipartisan operation that better reflects the will of Pennsylvanians:
“Eight score years ago on the fields of Gettysburg, at a time when our nation was fractured to the point of nearly breaking, President Abraham Lincoln gave an address concluding with a call for a government ‘…of the People, by the People, for the People.’ While our problems in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives pale in comparison, we have experienced a decade of increasing partisan faction and erosion of democratic norms that, if left unchecked, will endanger the very foundation of our House.
