Rep. Cox participated in a House Judiciary Committee hearing at the Reading Regional Airport about the alarming number of deaths associated with local halfway houses that are supposed to help parolees addicted to illegal drugs transition to life outside of the correction system. The committee called the hearing following recent deaths and other incidents at Alcohol & Drug Addiction Parole & Probation Treatment (ADAPPT) in Reading and Wernersville Community Corrections Center (WCCC), two halfway houses supported with public dollars.

The House Republican Policy Committee held a hearing at the Spring Township Building to learn about the unique problems and opportunities facing local employers. Rep. Cox invited his colleagues to hold the hearing in the 129th District to learn about the economic challenges local job creators and workers deal with on a daily basis. The legislators’ goal is to learn from the people on the front lines of the struggle to grow the economy and then use that knowledge to create state policies that promote private-sector job creation.