{"id":134964,"date":"2024-09-11T17:28:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T21:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=134964"},"modified":"2024-09-11T17:28:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T21:28:29","slug":"schweyer-appointed-majority-chair-of-house-ethics-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=134964","title":{"rendered":"Schweyer appointed majority chair of House Ethics Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HARRISBURG, Sept. 10 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>State Rep. Peter Schweyer announced this week he has been appointed the Majority Chair of the House Committee on Ethics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am honored to be named the chair of the Ethics Committee and continue the efforts of transparency and holding all who serve the people of Pennsylvania accountable,\u201d said Schweyer. \u201cWe are living in very polarized and divisive times, and it is important that this committee works in a matter that will restore the people\u2019s trust in state government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The House Committee on Ethics has the responsibility to investigate and deal with violations of House rules, the legislative code of ethics and the Lobbying Disclosure Act. The committee also is responsible for planning and conducting ethics education courses as required by House rules.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this committee assignment, Schweyer also serves as the Majority Chair of the House Education Committee where he continues to advance legislation to provide quality and equitable education for all Pennsylvania students.<\/p>\n<p>Schweyer\u2019s district office is located at 1501 Lehigh St., Suite 206, Allentown. Residents can stop by or call 610-791-6270\u00a0to set up an appointment or for inquiries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nThomas LeClair<br \/>\nResearch Analyst<br \/>\nHouse Democratic Education Committee<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, Sept. 10 \u2013\u00a0State Rep. Peter Schweyer announced this week he has been appointed the Majority Chair of the House Committee on Ethics. \u201cI am honored to be named the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=134964\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Schweyer appointed majority chair of House Ethics Committee<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/rep-schweyer-134th.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}