Clinton D. Owlett is a Republican member of the

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. He was elected from the 68th district on June 5, 2018.

Early life and family

Owlett grew up on a dairy farm in

Tioga County, Pennsylvania Tioga County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 41,045. Its county seat is Wellsboro. The county was created on March 26, 1804, from part of Lycoming County and later organized in 1812 ...

and attended New Covenant Academy. After graduating high school, Owlett completed an internship at Three Springs Ministries. There, he advanced to the position of director of program development and then general manager, before leaving to work at a ski resort. In 2012, he established his own construction and decorating company. He is married and has four children.

Career and political views

During the

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, Owlett introduced legislation that would allow religious institutions to gather in-person. He voted twice to lift the governor's emergency order, once on May 28, 2020, and again on June 9, 2020. Owlett has amended drug laws, introducing a bill to permanently place

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on the list of Schedule II controlled substances. He has encouraged legislators to co-sponsor laws that would consider it a

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to deliver drugs that results in serious injury. Owlett supports the deregulation of small farms and the promotion of dairy products. He supports efforts to prohibit plant-based milk from using the term "milk", and advocates for schools to provide larger quantities of dairy milk with school lunches. In 2021, Owlett supported two bills in the Pennsylvania Legislature that would restrict

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: a "

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" and the Down Syndrome Protection Act, which would prohibit abortions based on prenatal Down syndrome diagnosis. , Owlett's committee assignments are Agriculture & Rural Affairs, Appropriations, Ethics, and Judiciary.

References

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