NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey, a long serving New York Democrat who was the first woman to chair the powerful House Appropriations Committee, has died. She was 87. Lowey’s family ...

The Montana House came in at 9 a.m. Wednesday for a full day of debate – but there was only one bill on the agenda.

Georgia will spend more state money on private school vouchers and poor students in traditional schools under a budget that ...

House Democrats who spoke to TPM on Tuesday were stunned and floored by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) raising the ...

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The Idaho Legislature’s powerful budget committee redrafted two failed budgets on Wednesday afternoon and sent signals that a ...

Republicans in Congress have zeroed in on federal judges unilaterally blocking key Trump executive orders on immigration and government reform. The Constitution gives Congress the right to delineate ...

Idaho Legislature Budget and Policy Analyst France Lippett gives a presentation to the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee at the State Capitol building on Jan. 23, 2024. JFAC co-chairs Sen.

A bill that would tighten Medicaid eligibility and add work requirements for certain programs was amended and passed out of the Ways and Means Committee in just under an hour on Wednesday, moving ...

Former House Appropriations Committee Chair Nita Lowey, a popular Congresswoman (D-NY) who served as a lawmaker for 32 years, has died. Born Nita Sue Melnikoff in the Bronx, she died Saturday at ...

President Trump is on a collision course with Republican defense hawks over the question of whether the United States should continue its 75-year military leadership of NATO and at what level of ...