Pennsylvania
Watch: Josh Shapiro to be sworn in as governor of Pa.
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — It is Inauguration Day for Pennsylvania Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro.
The Democrat from Montgomery County will take the oath of workplace at 12 p.m. Tuesday in Harrisburg.
Lt. Gov.-elect Austin Davis can even be sworn in.
“I am ready to be a governor for all Pennsylvanians,” Shapiro stated at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day occasion Monday. “To do the exhausting work to maneuver our Commonwealth ahead, construct on the robust basis that Gov. Wolf has left us and make some actual necessary change.”
A part of Shapiro’s function as governor will embody working with the Pennsylvania Home, which for months was not sure which get together was in energy. Ultimately, Democrats and a few Republicans elected Berks County Rep. Mark Rozzi as speaker. He has pledged to manipulate as an impartial.
In November, Shapiro defeated Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano to grow to be governor.
CBS Philadelphia will stream Shapiro’s inauguration ceremony this afternoon. You possibly can watch it within the participant above.
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