Pa. Lottery takes a backseat to Wolf's tax proposals at House budget hearing

Seated before the House Appropriations Committee on Monday for a departmental budget hearing are Pennsylvania Lottery executive director Drew Svitko; Dan Hassell, deputy secretary for tax policy; Revenue Secretary Eileen McNulty; and Christin Heidingsfelder, deputy secretary of administraiton, All that has happened since the last time a Pennsylvania Lottery official sat before the House Appropriations Committee but not a single question was asked of executive director Drew Svitko during a more than two-hour Department of Revenue budget hearing on Monday.