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HARRISBURG — A Pennsylvania Senate panel has taken the rare and dramatic step of subpoenaing the Shapiro administration for a wide range of records detailing the more than $1 million in publicly-funded security upgrades being made to the governor’s private home in the Philadelphia suburbs.

The GOP-led state Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee voted on Tuesday along party lines to issue subpoenas for information involving Gov. Josh Shapiro’s use of taxpayer funds for the upgrades, which range from a new security system to extensive landscaping and groundskeeping work around his property i

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