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- ↑ Per Article II, Section 2 of the Pennsylvania Constitution, the legislative session ended on November 30, 2000
- 1 2 "Joseph M. Gladeck Jr. (Republican)". Official Pennsylvania House of Representatives Profile. Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Archived from the original on 2000-03-07.
- ↑ "Joseph M. Gladeck, Jr." (brief biography). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania House of Representatives, retrieved online July 16, 2019.
- ↑ "Joseph M. Gladeck, Jr." (brief biography), Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
- ↑ Gibbons, Margaret. "Golf plan is 'dead.'" Swarthmore, Pennsylvania: The Times Herald, October 12, 2000.
- ↑ Miller, Laura. "Pa. Bill to Outlaw Teacher Strikes Advances." Bethesda, Maryland: Education Week, October 25, 1995.
- ↑ "House Bill 2216," in "Recent legislation introduced," in "Government," in Pennsylvania Medicine, Vol. 99, No. 1 (January 1996), p. 12. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Medical Society, January 1996.
- ↑ "Governor, Society Meet on Workers' Comp Reform," in Pennsylvania Medicine, Vol. 99, No. 5, p. 4 (May 1996). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Medical Society, May 1996.