House Won't Vote Impact Fee Until Wednesday

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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.

An impact fee update: the House began deliberating legislation overhauling Pennsylvania’s natural gas regulations around 8:30 Tuesday night, but ended its session without a final vote on the measure.
The House has an 11 PM curfew. Members can override it on a 2/3 vote, but shortly before 11 o’clock, Speaker Sam Smith announced the chamber would end debate for the night, and pick up deliberations Wednesday.
The Senate passed the measure on a 31-19 vote Tuesday morning. Five Democrats voted for the bill, including two Philadelphia lawmakers who said they did-so due to political pressure.
 

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