Minimum Wage, Mold Products Tax Exemption, and Ms. Charlene Meerhoff's 7th Grade Class Environmental Issues Correspondence

Not every letter to constituents is digitized, because they are typically the same form letter response to each constituent. Changes in the form letter are digitized. Not every letter from constituents is digitized due to privacy concerns.

Minimum Wage

Memo, June 23, 1989, from Pennsylvania Council of Churches, to Members of the House of Representatives. They support House Bill 2 increasing the minimum wage.

Memo, June 1989, from Pennsylvania Retailers' Association, to Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Subject: House Bill 2 and House Bill 828. They urge a no vote on House Bill 2, because it will create economic chaos.

June 27, 1989, from Service Employees International Union AFL-CIO, to Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. They strongly support raising the minimum wage to a living wage of 5.05 per hour.

March 14, 2002, from Rep. Thomas Scrimenti, to a constituent. Responding towards claims against raising minimum wage and his disagreement with those claims.

Molded Products Tax Exemption, House Bill 1735 of 1999

October 13, 1999, from Rep. Thomas Scrimenti, to Polymer Molding, Inc. Regarding House Bill 1735 to exempt the sale of molds and related mold products from the Pennsylvania sales and use tax. This will strengthen the plastic mold industry.

August 17, 1999, from Rep. Thomas Scrimenti, to Tooling Components, Inc. Speaks of House Bill 1735 moving through the House Finance Committee. He encourages them to directly contact Governor Ridge regarding the new interpretation of Tax Reform code of 1971.

Ms. Charlene Meerhoff's 7th Grade Class Environmental Issues

April 1992, from the 7th Grade Social Studies Class in the Corry Area High School, to Rep. Thomas Scrimenti. This entire class chose to write to Rep. Scrimenti as part of their Earth Day project and to encourage them to be involved in local government.

May 5, 1992, from Rep. Thomas Scrimenti, to Charlene L. Meerhoff, Social Studies Teacher, Corry Area High School. His response to all the children's’ letters.