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

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...

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...

What is happening — or, rather, not happening — in Harrisburg can be briefly explained in playground terms. The Democratic governor made a decision th...

A long, cold state budget impasse marks the long, hot summer at the state Capitol. Lawmakers will beat the heat by taking off the rest of the summer —...

There has been a highly political battle on Capitol Hill — actually, that’s the only kind of battle they have on Capitol Hill — over U.S. defense poli...

WASHINGTON — A group of Democratic senators has introduced a bill that would provide support to the organic farming industry. The Organic Science and ...

One of the murkier aspects of congressional Republicans’ investigation of President Biden’s financial history concerns an allegation that Biden, when ...

Both houses of the state Legislature have passed a budget and Gov. Josh Shapiro has signed it, but this being Pennsylvania, that doesn’t mean that the...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Republicans regularly knock U.S. Sen. Bob Casey for supporting President Joe Biden almost all the time in Congress. But he’s cast a...

Four months after President Joe Biden nominated former California Labor Secretary Julie Su to serve as U.S. Labor Secretary, Su’s nomination remains s...

WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania’s Democratic U.S. senators both spoke out over the weekend with reactions to the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Co...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — A new political dynamic appeared possible in the Capitol a few months ago. Better communication and renewed cooperation were being ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The Democrat-controlled House has passed two priorities of Gov. Josh Shapiro — tax credits for new nurses, teachers and police offi...

WASHINGTON — Justice and accountability — those were the words used by Pennsylvania’s U.S. senators about Friday’s guilty verdict in the Tree of Life ...

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A stadium financing bill aimed at drawing the Oakland Athletics to Las Vegas cleared a major hurdle Tuesday after being appro...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Gun owners from across Pennsylvania gathered on the Capitol steps on Monday for the annual Right to Keep and Bear Arms Rally, with ...

In George Washington’s farewell address, our nation’s first president spoke about the importance of the people’s power to amend the U.S. Constitution....

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Gov. Josh Shapiro and a divided state Legislature are heading into a month of high-intensity lawmaking with an eye on mutual goals ...

As Pennsylvania’s frontline leader for business growth, the Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s mission is advocating for policies to make...