{"id":275838,"date":"2026-08-31T15:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/275838\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T15:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:38:07","slug":"kutz-policy-committee-to-host-hearing-on-making-pennsylvania-more-affordable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/275838\/","title":{"rendered":"Kutz, Policy Committee to Host Hearing on Making Pennsylvania More Affordable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 31, 2026<\/p>\n<p>WHAT: \tHouse Republican Policy Committee Chairman David H. Rowe (R-Snyder\/Union\/Mifflin\/Juniata), Rep. Thomas Kutz (R-Cumberland), and other lawmakers will host a hearing titled \u201cClosing the GAP: Making Pennsylvania More Affordable\u201d to examine the Pennsylvania Growth and Affordability Plan (GAP), a legislative package focused on lowering costs for families and making Pennsylvania a more competitive place to live, work, and do business.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>WHO: \tTestifiers will include Neal Lesher, vice president, government affairs, Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry; Shelby Linton-Keddie, senior director, government, regulatory policy, and external affairs, PPL Electric Utilities; and Matt Madden, operating principal, Keller Williams of Central PA.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>WHEN: \tTuesday, Sept. 1, at 10 a.m.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>WHERE: \tSilver Spring Township Municipal Building, 8 Flowers Drive, Mechanicsburg, PA 17050&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>LIVESTREAM: Barring any technical difficulties, the hearing will be streamed online at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.policycommittee.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">policycommittee.com<\/a>.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Media contact: Nancy Nilson, nnilson@pahousegop.com&#13;<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August 31, 2026 WHAT: House Republican Policy Committee Chairman David H. Rowe (R-Snyder\/Union\/Mifflin\/Juniata), Rep. Thomas Kutz (R-Cumberland), and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-275838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}