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State Rep. Torren Ecker (R- Adams, Cumberland) welcomes Rep. Lou Schmitt (R-Blair) to discuss House Appropriations Committee Budget Hearings.

State Rep. Torren Ecker (R- Adams, Cumberland) welcomes Rep. Mike Cabell (R-Luzerne) to discuss the effects of illegal immigration on our country and our Commonwealth, and what state lawmakers can do to remedy the situation.

State Rep. Torren Ecker (R- Adams, Cumberland) welcomes Charlie O’Neill from the House Appropriations Committee to discuss Governor Shapiro’s recent budget proposal that would spend $48 Billion.

State Rep. Torren Ecker (R- Adams, Cumberland) welcomes House Republican Education Committee Chair Jesse Topper to discuss the Basic Education Funding Commission’s recommendations on funding our public schools.

State Rep. Torren Ecker (R- Adams, Cumberland) welcomes Lela Reichart, Executive Vice President of Marketing at Sterman Masser, Inc. – lifelong advocate of farmers and the PA Preferred program.

State Rep. Torren Ecker (R- Adams, Cumberland) welcomes Rep. Kate Klunk to discuss a new law that would give a new level of oversight to the General Assembly related to State Related Universities.

State Rep. Torren Ecker (R- Adams, Cumberland) welcomes Reps. K.C. Tomlinson and Kristin Marcell to discuss legislation designed to make the communities we live in safer. Reps. Marcell and Tomlinson say they have noticed the crime issues that have been plaguing Philadelphia moving to the surrounding communities.

State Rep. Torren Ecker (R- Adams, Cumberland) welcomes Don Rank from Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, and Alex Kozak, Pennsylvania Field Manager for the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. The panel discusses the diversion of funds from the Game Commission to another conservation group, which would jeopardize funding from the federal government, while also compromising fundraising efforts in PA.

State Rep. Torren Ecker (R- Adams, Cumberland) welcomes Greg Moreland, State Director of the National Federation of Independent Business, to discuss recent efforts to increase the minimum wage in PA and in our nation as a whole – and how such a change would impact working families across the Commonwealth.

State Rep. Torren Ecker (R- Adams, Cumberland) welcomes fellow Reps. Thomas Kutz, Kristen Marcell, and Mike Cabell for a frank discussion about their first budget as lawmakers and as members of the House Appropriations Committee.

State Rep. Torren Ecker (R- Adams, Cumberland) welcomes Timothy D Schaeffer, Executive Director of the PA Fish and Boat Commission, where they discuss fishing therapy programs, boating safety, and reptile and amphibian management.

State Rep. Torren Ecker (R- Adams, Cumberland) welcomes Charles E Patterson, President of Shippensburg University, to discuss the state’s role in higher education, how to keep educated young people in PA, and Shippo the Hippo.