Pa. Senate defends 'legislative privilege' claim, rejects appeal for redacted expense details
Both the Senate and House had cited the privilege to redact parts of thousands of pages of expenses provided through Right-to-Know requests in recent months.
House Republicans later reversed course and released all the information without redactions made under the obscure “speech and debate clause” of the Constitution.
They also vowed to change their practice of redacting such information, and this week House Majority Leader Bryan Cutler officially proposed an internal rule change to never again produce expense records with “excessive redactions.”
“We should always err on the side of public transparency. We all answer to our constituents for every vote we make and every dollar we spend,” Mr. Cutler, a Lancaster County Republican, said in a statement Wednesday.
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