As a lupus advocate, we’ll be asking you frequently to reach out to your members of Congress in support of people affected by lupus. This might include urging your Senators and Representatives to ...

Ask almost anyone and they will tell you the legislative process is not pretty. It can be petty, cruel, frustrating, unfair, and glacially slow. The legislative process is not one for the thin-skinned ...

Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) would say about budget negotiations that “the pain was inevitable but the suffering was optional.” Sometimes, though, the suffering is not optional.

The governor has 30 days to act in 2026. In the first year of the Legislature's two-year cycles, the governor is limited to ...

The sickening spectacle of the Senate, at nearly 2:00 am Saturday morning, passing a bill on essentially party lines, the full contents of which almost none of them knew, its assumptions about how ...

After little more than four months in office, a group of freshman Waukegan aldermen — collaborating with a colleague elected to his second term May 1 — are trying to accelerate the legislative process ...

The first step is for a state representative or senator to introduce a bill in their respective chamber. For the 2026 ...

“Regular order” is a catch phrase you hear bantered about a lot in Washington these days. Speaker Boehner was heavily criticized for not sticking with regular order. Newly minted Speaker Paul Ryan has ...

CHEROKEE, N.C. (WJHL)- Virginia General Assembly lawmakers are expected to vote Tuesday on legalizing casinos. The bill as it stands would open the door for a proposed casino and resort at the Bristol ...

Trenton Democrats introduced legislation Dec. 18 aimed at addressing a pressing issue here in the Garden State – affordable housing. Assembly Bill 4/Senate Bill 4251 would create a new, streamlined ...

Last month, as Maryland lawmakers considered a bill that would ban transgender students from playing in girls’ sports, something was notably missing from the House Ways and Means Committee hearing ...

AND RESPECT. IOWA SECRETARY OF STATE PAUL PATE WANTS STATE LAWMAKERS TO EXPAND HIS ABILITY TO VERIFY VOTERS CITIZENSHIP STATUS. CHIEF POLITICAL REPORTER AMANDA ROOKER IS HERE NOW TO WALK US THROUGH ...