Steve's Record Since Taking Office in January 2009

• Steve helped bring over 200 high-paying jobs to the Newtown-Yardley area.
• Steve fought to provide property tax relief to disabled veterans.
• Steve is fighting for a state grant to bring public water and sewer to Edgewood Village in Lower Makefield; the project will spur economic growth in the village, bringing in hundreds of jobs and will protect the health of village residents.
• Steve has fought for our kids too, proposing a plan to stop online predators and creating a volunteer-based after-school program for middle school students in Council Rock and Pennsbury called Z Period.Z Period involves virtually no cost to the school districts.
• Steve is fighting for a law that will BAN texting while driving to make our roads safe for all of us.
• Steve continues to fight for sound barriers for our neighborhoods along I-95. As a township supervisor he was successful in getting most of the neighborhoods north of Route 332 protected by barriers that will be built as part of the new Scudder Falls Bridge project. He's now fighting for the remaining areas north and south of Route 332.
• Steve is continuing to fight to stop a proposed New Jersey law that would require thousands of Bucks County residents who work in the Garden State to uproot their families and move there.
• Steve and his dedicated constituent service staff have helped thousands of residents with a wide array of problems.

Reforming Harrisburg

Steve has fought to reform Harrisburg.

• Steve does not accept perks like a state car, salary increases or the $163 per diem (the average state legislator receives over $17,000 in per diems annually; Steve takes none of it).
• Steve is one of a handful of House members who contribute toward their heath care.
• Steve has proposed a bill that would require all representatives to pay toward their health care.
• Steve also has proposed a bill that would cause legislators to lose their salary for every day past the June 30th deadline that a budget is late.
• Steve has proposed a bill that would forbid any public employee for elected official to use state resources for political campaigning.
• Steve supports a Constitutional Convention to cut the state legislature in half and impose term limits.

Fiscal Responsibility & Independence

Steve has worked to bring fiscal responsibility to state government, particularly during this tough economy.

• Steve voted for balanced budgets that cut spending and DID NOT raise either the state income or state sales tax.
• On Steve’s watch, state spending has GONE DOWN by over $400 million.
• Steve also has displayed an independence that puts the interests of the people of the Newtown- Yardley area ahead of partisan politics.
• Steve bucked his own party's leaders, becoming one of just a few Democrats to vote NO on the table games bill.
• Steve opposed the table games bill because it didn’t provide for immediate property tax relief, gave away millions to casino owners and was loaded with pork.
• Steve was one of only 3 representatives in the entire House who voted NO on the August 2009 stop gap budget because it prolonged last summer's budget impasse and wound up hurting people all across Pennsylvania who were counting on state funding for everything from education to basic services.