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The drama is over. WithRepublicansfinally installing Rep.Kevin McCarthyofCaliforniaas speaker of theHouse of Representatives, that body can get going ...

HARRISBURG — A week after he was a surprise choice to become speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Democratic state Rep. Mark Rozzi ca...

As Republican infighting debilitates Washington, lawmakers at some U.S. statehouses have managed to launch sessions complicated by similar GOP partisa...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — Pennsylvania has a new speaker of the state House, Rep. Mark Rozzi of Berks County. Rozzi, a Democrat who is best known for fighting...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s new state House speaker declared Friday that no other legislation will be taken up by his chamber until it approves a cons...

HARRISBURG — The narrowly divided state House of Representatives on Tuesday resolved a logjam over control of the chamber by making its new speaker a ...

The 118th Congress convenes today with each party holding a slim majority in one chamber. In the Senate, a Democratic coalition enjoys a 51-49 advanta...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvania House Democrats’ claim that they hold the majority in the 203-member chamber in an ongoing power struggle has been rej...

This holiday season, working families across America are struggling through the worst bout of inflation in decades. A typical household has lost more ...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner says that the Republican-led drive to impeach and remove him from office was part of...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Rep. Bryan Cutler, current Speaker of the Pennsylvania House, will continue to lead the state House Republican caucus into the new ...

Kevin McCarthy may now have the hardest job in Washington. Assuming that he becomes speaker of the House, which will require the near-unanimous suppor...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The Pennsylvania House of Representatives voted along mostly partisan lines Wednesday to impeach Philadelphia District Attorney Lar...

Democrats will control the Senate and, it seems, Republicans, the House in the 118th Congress starting on Jan. 3, but the current 117th session still ...

HARRISBURG – The General Assembly has approved and sent to the governor’s desk legislation authored by Rep. Martin Causer, R-Turtlepoint, to end the s...

As Election Day approaches, I often find myself thinking of H.L. Mencken. Particularly during off-year contests. “The Sage of Baltimore,” as he was kn...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania state House Republicans on Wednesday introduced a measure to impeach Philadelphia’s Democratic district attorney, saying the...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — With Election Day two weeks away, Republican prospects of taking control of the House of Representatives , already strong, appear t...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Three weeks before election day, the race for control of the U.S. Senate sits on a razor’s edge. The stakes are enormous. With Repu...

There has been a surge of optimism among Democrats lately when it comes to November’s midterm elections. The short version of the thinking is: Maybe w...