House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) said in an online statement that the budget proposal directs taxpayer dollars “where they matter most” and “prioritizes cutting-edge biomedical research.” At the markup hearing on Tuesday, Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) disagreed — urging her colleagues to block the bill.

The Democratic leaders of Maryland’s House and Senate both received bomb threats Thursday. “Earlier today, I received a bomb threat at my home in Baltimore County. Law enforcement responded quickly and determined that it was a non-credible bomb threat,

Both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate have continued to increase the attention paid to artificial intelligence (AI) issues for the defense sector, most notably by including a number of provisions in the text of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2026 (FY 2026),

Republican power brokers are pressuring Daniel Cameron to abandon his uphill Senate bid and take on Rep. Thomas Massie, who is a thorn in the president’s side.

An appeals court panel heard arguments Tuesday on whether the state House Republican majority can sit on bills adopted by the Legislature in the last session instead of sending them to the governor.

Hakeem Jeffries is the likely Speaker of the House if he can convince unenthused Democrats and Independents to flip the House next fall.

Lawmakers will be back in Tallahassee next month to convene committee hearings. Among those committees will be the new House Select committee on Congressional Redistricting. Rep. Mike Redondo, first elected in 2023 to represent part of Miami-Dade County,

Nine months after the start of session, the Michigan Legislature continued a fight over the fate of nine bills that weren't presented to the governor.

Both Maryland House Speaker Adrienne Jones and Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson reported having received bomb threats to their home on Thursday, September 11.

The state of Michigan faces a partial government shutdown if Democrats and Republicans can't agree on a budget for 2026 by Oct. 1.