Texas lawmakers meet every other year, juggling their legislative duties with careers and personal lives. The Texas Newsroom’s Blaise Gainey continues his reporting profiles of our part-time ...

Rep. Helen Kerwin, 77, was elected in November to represent District 58 in the Texas House. While Kerwin was born in ...

Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson, a political legend whose quick wit bridged partisan gaps in the years before today’s political acrimony, has died. He was 93. Along with former ...

Protests erupted in the Tennessee House of Representatives on Tuesday over legislation that would allow public schools to bar migrant children without legal status from receiving an education.

The Senate was preparing Friday to give final approval to a bill that could result in harsher prison sentences for fentanyl ...

At least eight Democrats will need to join with Republicans to move the funding package forward to avoid a partial government ...

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) surprised Washington Thursday by announcing on the Senate floor that he would vote to advance a House Republican-drafted six-month government funding ...

Texas legislator Rep. Stan Gerdes (R) has introduced The FURRIES Act, legislation to punish students who act like non-human ...

A group backed by Elon Musk is running ads targeting Republican lawmakers in several states over their support of a federal ...

A Kansas House committee is considering a bill that would create a 17-member blue-ribbon commission to study operations and ...

HB 470 would expand the "Capitol Complex," giving the Texas Department of Public Safety jurisdiction over 18 blocks around ...

Among the protesters was actress Debra Winger, who accused the Trump administration of having “no interest in Jewish safety” ...