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The house cannot hold an official session in the absence of the speaker or their designated speaker pro tempore. Speaker K. Leroy Irvis was the first African-American elected speaker of any state legislature in the United States since the Reconstruction era. Current Speaker Joanna McClinton is the first female and first female African-American ...
Pennsylvania House, District 31 Party Candidate Votes % Democratic: Steve Santarsiero (incumbent) 20,640 : 57.74 : Republican: Anne Chapman 15,105 42.26 Total votes
The speakership is the oldest elected statewide office in the Commonwealth. Since its first session in 1682—presided over by William Penn—over 130 house members have been elevated to the speaker's chair. The house cannot hold an official session in the absence of the speaker or their designated speaker pro tempore.
Joanna E. McClinton (born August 19, 1982) is an American politician from Pennsylvania currently serving as the 141st Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives since February 28, 2023. A member of the Democratic Party , she is the first woman to serve as Speaker.
Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks with Eileen Miller on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, after signing a distracted driving law Miller championed. Miller’s son Paul Miller Jr., died in 2010 when a distracted ...
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WIIC-LD in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to move to channel 10, on virtual channel 31; WINK-TV in Fort Myers, Florida; WITI in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on virtual channel 6; WJNI-LD in North Charleston, South Carolina; WKBN-TV in Youngstown, Ohio, uses WYTV's spectrum; WKMA-TV in Madisonville, Kentucky; WKOI-TV in Richmond, Indiana, uses WDTN's spectrum
January 7 – Representative Joanna McClinton becomes Speaker of the House of Representatives. [1]January 31 – Med Jets Flight 056, a Learjet 55 operated by Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, crashed shortly after takeoff from Northeast Philadelphia Airport, resulting in the deaths of all six individuals on board and one person on the ground.