Rep. Mike Turzai

28th Legislative District, House Majority Leader

Mike Turzai hit the ground running as soon as he was elected state representative for the 28th District, representing communities in the North Hills of Allegheny County, in 2001. He quickly emerged as a commonsense, principled leader promoting fiscal responsibility, economic competitiveness and professional integrity.

He was re-elected by the House Republican Caucus to serve as the majority leader for the 2013-2014 session. As majority leader, Mike speaks on behalf of his caucus on the House floor, leads discussion and debate on major issues, plans the voting calendar and promotes the legislative agenda of his caucus.

Mike has focused his efforts on standing up for hard-working families and making Pennsylvania more competitive for businesses and job creators. He has pushed hard to control government spending so we can reduce taxes on families. He led the efforts to bring more openness to government with PennWATCH, which gives citizens unprecedented access to information on the state budget, revenues, spending and workforce.

During the 2011-12 legislative session, he was instrumental in lawsuit abuse reform, an important part of helping to attract new business to the Commonwealth and help job creators expand their operations.

Mike continues to spearhead efforts to improve the state’s jobs environment, reducing the debt, reforming borrowing programs, and crafting for the third straight year, an affordable, sustainable and responsible state budget. In addition, Mike is also the leading advocate for privatizing the state-owned liquor store monopoly in Pennsylvania.

Mike has been a staunch advocate to bring integrity to Harrisburg. He voted against the legislative pay raise and never accepted any increase. He also helped to lead efforts to repeal the pay raise.

Mike and his wife, Lidia, and their three sons, Andrew, Stephen and Matthew, live in Bradford Woods and are involved in many community activities.