Minnesota legislators are paid $51,750 annually —about $1,000 a week before taxes — to represent their constituents, pass bills and set state budgets at the Capitol. But the 66 Democrats in the ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson has formed a select subcommittee to further investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, assaults on the U.S.

Part II of Kentucky's legislative session begins Feb. 4. Pay close attention. There will be hundreds of bills filed.

The White House budget office rescinded a memo ordering a broad freeze on federal grants and loans after Republican senators ...

Columbus-area Republican Jon Husted on Tuesday, Jan. 21 resigned from his post as Ohio lieutenant governor and was sworn in ...

Oregon bade farewell to the state’s longest-serving legislator in the Senate chamber that the late Peter Michael Coleman ...

Arkansas legislators spent a second day advancing two controversial bills that stirred debate on the House and Senate floors ...

Gov. Mike Braun touted "wins" accomplished for the state under his tenure, and big plans for the legislative session during his speech.

A three-day meeting of U.S. House Republicans, meant to jumpstart President Donald Trump's $4 trillion tax cut agenda, ended ...

Will philanthropic lawmakers try to help pay Dreamers’ tuition? The Florida Legislature passed an anti-immigration crackdown ...

Rep. Erin Paré, a Holly Springs Republican who was recently appointed a chair of the House Appropriations Committee, filed ...

Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law, empowering immigration officers to detain unauthorized immigrants when they're arrested for crimes.