As Members of Congress depart Washington, D.C. for the August recess, many will meet with their constituents face-to-face in town hall meetings. These gatherings, in locations such as local diners or ...

Committee chairs have long been considered power brokers for lawmaking. But in the recently completed 116th Congress, their lawmaking effectiveness continued a downward slide. How do you measure ...

WE’LL BRING YOU THE LATEST AS IT COMES IN. NOW TO THE EFFORT TO BAN THE USE OF NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS IN CALIFORNIA’S LAWMAKING PROCESS. IT IS DEAD FOR THE YEAR. NDAS ARE LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENTS ...

Nebraska is unique in the lawmaking process. It's the only Legislature with one chamber, a state Senate. There is no House.

This message was on display Wednesday at the Kentucky Capitol as the League of Women Voters of Kentucky released a new study of antidemocratic tactics employed by the General Assembly to fast-track ...

If democracy dies in darkness, it sickens at twilight, and the last few days of this most recent legislative session were anything but a shining example of Florida’s lawmaking body at work. Let’s be ...

The integrity of the lawmaking process has been questioned as the Howard County Council weighs whether to change its senior tax cut law or evaluate it after it goes into effect this year. “Was it ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Former California Governor Jerry Brown sat ...