03. Personal Papers

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Representative Levdansky kept a news clippings file for each year he was in office. The majority of the collection contains these clippings from 2000 to 2010. The newspaper articles were copied onto acid-free paper. Examples of his district newsletters are also in the collection. Photographs of bill signings, tours, and district events are contained in this collection. DVD's of interviews and session days are also housed here.

Scope and Contents The collection is made up of constituent mailings regarding business, health care. Also, the collection contains research and notes regarding various public hearings held by the Policy Committee, in which Grucela was a member. Topics of the hearings include Educational Impact Fees, Land Use, PACE, Property Tax Reform, Nursing Shortage, and DUI.Grucela held an essay contest each year in his district entitled, "There Ought to be a Law," in which local students could submit their...

Scope and Contents The collection is an overall representation of Knepper's time in office. Examples of campaign material, news clippings, office material, memorabilia, and photographs from the House of Representatives are present.Also, material related to Knepper's campaign for Auditor General in 1980 and his time as Secretary of the Department of Labor and Industry from 1984 to 1987 are included. He was a friend of Governor Dick Thornburgh; therefore photographs of and correspondence from the...

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The collection is made up of research files. The topics include affirmative action, gambling, outcome-based education, race norming, labeling obscene records, and the Port Authority of Allegheny County. Gamble covered these topics during multiple sessions, so each folder covers several years.

The folders contain some or all of the following: news clippings, correspondence, hearing testimonies, photographs, bill/resolution drafts, amendments, notes.

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Campaign material and memorabilia collected by Mr. Lorence during his time as a staff member for the House of Representatives.

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This collection is mainly reports distributed to members of the House Health and Human Services Committee. Many of these reports were used as research for the various topics of the committee meetings. Topics include Medicaid, assisted living, welfare, and managed care.

Also in the collection are transcripts of several public hearings held by the Health and Human Services Committee.

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The bulk of the collection is in two series, Speeches and Videotapes; however, some biographical information, subject files and legislative work are housed in the collection. Topics include women's issues, education, domestic violence, and children.

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The collection is comprised of files related to Wansacz's legislative work from 2000-2010. Topics include (but not limited to) landfills, HIV, teacher strikes, collective bargaining, inheritance tax (family farm), and naturopathic doctors. Several of these topics are renewed each session.

Also there are a number of resolutions honoring the memories of soldiers from his district that were killed in action in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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The collection contains material from campaigns, district materials, legislative work, speeches, news clipings, photographs, memorabilia, awards, and correspondence. Contains material from when he was a Councilman of Elizabeth Borough, Mayor of Elizabeth, PA and when he was a State Representative. A large portion of the collection contains photographs of the Elizabeth Bridge and of himself in meetings and ceremonies as Mayor and Representative.

Scope and Contents This collection contains files from 1992-1994, and consists of legislation, newsletters, speeches, news clippings, and various information on statewide topics. The collection provides a broad overview of Leo Joseph Trich Jr.'s work in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, highlighting the issues he focused on and the concerns of his constituents. Representative Trich was interested in issues related to tax reform, health care cost containment, reducing firearm violence in schools,...