Tag: State Legislatures

New Hampshire lawmaker kicked from committee after tweeting photo of squirrel he shot with .50-caliber gun

Zach Halaschak · June 29, 2019 2:38 am

Enough Republican state senators returned to the Oregon Senate in Salem on Monday, May 13, 2019, to end a standoff in its fifth day, in which GOP senators kept the Senate from reaching a quorum.

Energy and Environment

GOP senators in Oregon to return to Capitol after avoiding climate bill

Zach Halaschak · June 28, 2019 11:15 pm

Isabela Cristina, 18, who is six months pregnant, shows a photo of her ultrasound. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Beltway Confidential

Ohio plan to fund mothers and children, not Planned Parenthood, destroys the Left’s ‘post-birth’ narrative

Ryan Everson · June 27, 2019 10:17 pm

Proponents of a proposed Massachusetts legislative bill, called the "Roe Act" by supporters, wear pink shirts, seated left and right, while opponents of the bill wear red shirts, center top, as they sit near one another in the gallery during a public hearing at the Statehouse, Monday, June 17, 2019, in Boston.

Massachusetts Democrats look to liberalize abortions late in pregnancies and for minors

Cassidy Morrison · June 26, 2019 4:00 am

A sign indicating the location of Red River Women's Clinic is seen in Fargo, North Dakota.

Sole abortion clinic in North Dakota files free speech suit against state anti-abortion laws

Cassidy Morrison · June 25, 2019 10:06 pm

Gov. J. B. Pritzker holds a bill that legalizes adult-use cannabis in the state of Illinois Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at Sankofa Cultural Arts and Business Center in Chicago. Illinois becomes the 11th to legalize the adult-use of recreational marijuana.

Illinois becomes next state to legalize recreational pot

Zach Halaschak · June 25, 2019 6:34 pm

Former Vice President Joe Biden takes the stage to speak to the International Association of Firefighters at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2019, amid growing expectations he'll soon announce he's running for president.

After segregationists spat, Biden’s black support in South Carolina may be more tenuous

Caitlin Yilek · June 21, 2019 5:03 pm

Shaun Donovan.

Bill passes allowing Navy SEAL to serve on FDNY after he was rejected for being ‘too old’

Zach Halaschak · June 21, 2019 12:30 pm

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2015 file photo, Sen. Linda Collins-Smith, R-Pocahontas, speaks at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark. Authorities in Arkansas say they're investigating as a homicide remains found outside the home of the former state senator who Republican Party officials say is dead. An Arkansas State Police spokesman said Wednesday, June 5, 2019, that the remains were found Tuesday outside the home in Pocahontas. Police declined to identify the victim. Property records show the home belongs to Collins-Smith and her ex-husband.

Woman arrested over murder of former state senator shot dead outside her home

Zach Halaschak · June 15, 2019 2:50 pm

Beltway Confidential

Don’t tread on my lemonade

Madeline Fry Schultz · June 14, 2019 3:00 am

Members of the New York state Assembly debate legislation that authorizes state tax officials to release, if requested, individual New York state tax returns to Congress, during a vote in the Assembly Chamber at the state Capitol Wednesday, May 22, 2019, in Albany, N.Y.

New York State Assembly passes bill allowing illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses

Jon Brown · June 13, 2019 1:06 am

A boy selling lemonade to other children

Texas Gov. Abbott signs law allowing kids to run lemonade stands

Julio Rosas · June 12, 2019 12:37 am