Appointments By Recent Speakers
By appointment of current House Speaker Samuel H. Smith, he also continues his service on the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, where he has served since his Fall 1995 appointment by House Speaker Matthew J. Ryan. He is currently the most senior member of the Council.
He was a member of Speaker of the House Dennis M. O'Brien's Commission on Legislative Reform, and of work groups of his Speaker's Symposium on Crime and Violence. He was one of Speaker O'Brien's Speakers pro tempore. O'Brien also appointed him to the Executive Committee of the Council of State Governments.
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