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All four Democratic and Republican caucuses in the state House and Senate have staff lawyers, some of whom are paid more than $200,000 a year. Yet law...

WASHINGTON — Wednesday, U.S. Senators Bob Casey, D-Pa., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, announced passage of their bill to screen U.S. investments in nation...

WASHINGTON — Wednesday, on the 33rd anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), U.S. Senator Bob Casey, D, Pa., Chairman ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Representatives Glenn “GT” Thompson, Pa.-15, Suzanne Bonamici, Ore.-01, Brad Finstad, Minn.-01, and Derek Kilmer, Wash.-06, Wednesda...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson joined a bipartisan group in the House Wednesday in introducing the Creating Opportunities to Thrive and Advance...

Three weeks after the deadline, Pennsylvania still has not enacted its 2023-24 state budget. The budget bill was passed in both chambers of the state ...

Republican legislative leaders have decided not to appeal the Commonwealth Court decision finding that underfunding low-income school districts violat...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — A landmark ruling that stated Pennsylvania’s education funding system is unconstitutional will stand after Republican lawmakers did...

Adopting a state budget is about the only thing that the state constitution requires of legislators. Tuesday, state Rep. Seth Grove of York County, ra...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — We don’t know what specific charges special counsel Jack Smith will pursue if former President Donald Trump is indicted on allegati...

Progressive activists remain committed to tearing down the Supreme Court on one hand as, without irony, they fret about threats to democracy on the ot...

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee offered U.S. Supreme Court justices an opportunity to salvage their standing with the American people on W...

Football practice will begin next week at Pennsylvania’s big state-related universities, but the Legislature’s game of political football with the ins...

WASHINGTON — Thursday, the Senate passed an amendment introduced by U.S. Senators John Fetterman, D-Pa., Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and...

A bipartisan group of senators announced Thursday they are working on a college sports bill that would create national regulations for name, image and...

A former Bradford and Port Allegany man who was sending nude photos of himself to children on Snapchat was sentenced Thursday in McKean County Court t...

WASHINGTON — Thursday, Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., joined by over a dozen of his Senate colleagues, and Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-Ill., in the House, i...

HARRISBURG — Treasurer Stacy Garrity announced Thursday, the Treasury’s historic vault that the Pennsylvania Treasury Department returned more unclaim...

WASHINGTON — Thursday, U.S. Senators Bob Casey, D-Pa. and Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, introduced legislation to protect job applicants and workers from em...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. Bob Casey, D-Pa. and Mitt Romney, R-Utah, members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, appla...