Joe Scarnati

==Background==
* R
* Leader in the PA Senate
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===Media===
====Trib Whispers from December, 2006 ====
Joe Scarnati, the state Senate's new top GOP leader, and Bill DeWeese, at this point the likely new state House speaker, both are promising more openness when it comes to legislative records.
"I'm totally in favor of transparency. What's there to hide?" said Scarnati, R, Jefferson County. He said he saw no reason that Senate leadership expense records shouldn't be available to the public as they had been in the past.
DeWeese said last week that as speaker he would urge his caucus to let reporters back on the House floor. Reporters were tossed off the floor in 1995 by the late House Speaker Matthew Ryan, R-Delaware County, supposedly because they made too much noise.
DeWeese also indicated members' expense records should be more available to the public. He previously has stated that roll call votes on bills should be made available on the Internet. 
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