Pennsylvania Budget Cram Week Starts With Eye On Saving Money

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s budget cram week is beginning, as lawmakers are advancing a spending plan that benefits from a surplus to spread around modest spending increases.
Lawmakers are also touting the commitment to a substantial deposit in Pennsylvania’s relatively bare budgetary reserve in a compromise spending plan released Monday.
Votes in the Republican-controlled Legislature were expected later this week, as the fiscal year winds down. The $34 billion plan i