This is not the first time lawmakers have fled the Texas State Capitol avoid voting on a measure they disagreed with.

State Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs spoke to the senators on Wednesday about her six-month legal battle to get her ...

# Today, Republicans control the Senate by 53–47, with the Democratic total including “independent” senators from Vermont and Maine who almost always oppose the president’s policies and nominees.

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Republicans have told Donald Trump to “grow up” after he sacked the US government’s top statistician over underwhelming jobs ...

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy and his three Republican challengers have one thing in common in Louisiana's upcoming Senate race.

Those two bills will go into effect Dec. 1. WXII had a crew in Raleigh at the legislature, where the override votes drew a ...

Erickson pointed out that Fort Collins’ locality rate is 30.52 percent, resulting in almost no payroll savings. And although Salt Lake City’s locality rate is 17.06 percent, Utah’s public land is ...

Republicans in Texas currently hold 25 of the state’s 38 seats, and the new map ups the total they could win to 30. All of ...

Phil Berger has been the state’s most powerful politician for more than a decade. He no longer looks invincible.

President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday proposed revoking a scientific finding that has long been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate ch ...

Over the same period, Arizona attracted a net 483,000 new residents coming from other states, ranking fourth behind Florida ...