PA Senate Unique in Northeast

Republicans have controlled the Pennsylvania Senate for most of the last three decades, and now they have new bragging rights: The Senate is the last state legislative chamber in the Northeast in GOP hands.

Leading the GOP effort to keep Senate control was second-term Sen. Joe Scarnati, a former restaurateur from rural northern Pennsylvania elevated to Senate president pro tempore two years ago.

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