House Readies For Impact Fee Vote

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  Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.
  
  Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.
  
  Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

Pennsylvania’s House is debating its Marcellus Shale impact fee this afternoon, with the goal of a final vote by day’s end.
It’s a lively debate: lawmakers have already quoted Ke$ha and referenced the JFK assassination. But most of the major points being made are the same issues lawmakers have been talking about since the first severance tax debates in 2009.
Over the coming days, StateImpact will have full coverage of the implications of the bill’s re-written language, and analysis of what happens next. For the details on today’s debate and vote, however, follow these reporters on Twitter:
– PA Independent’s Eric Boehm
– The Post-Gazette’s Laura Olson
You can also watch it live on PCN.

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