parliament and legislative bodies

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvania’s Democratic U.S. senators split their votes on the debt ceiling bill Thursday night, with Sen. Bob Casey voting for i...

Teachers leaving the profession and college students declining to enter it cite myriad reasons for the trend, so legislators can’t resolve the resulti...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — State Sen. Doug Mastriano says he won’t run for U.S. Senate. Mastriano, R-Franklin, a far-right state senator who lost his 2022 g...

It’s not easy becoming a teacher in Pennsylvania. I should know. As a student at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, I’ve been working on beco...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority is accepting applications for grants to increase access to reliable, high-speed internet...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The Pennsylvania House in a split vote has passed legislation to address the state’s teacher shortage, particularly a need for more...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — More than 1.2 million registered Pennsylvania voters can’t take part in the state’s “closed” party primary elections. A veteran sta...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Newly empowered Pennsylvania House Democrats, in a position to move election legislation for the first time since the 2020 election...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — U.S. Sen. John Fetterman didn’t need an acceleration lane to get up to speed after returning to Capitol Hill this week following a ...

During the two months that the “full-time” state House managed not to meet early this year, legislatures in several other states wrapped up their busi...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Sen. John Fetterman was to return to the Senate Monday for the first time since mid-February, after a six-week hospitalization for ...

The Pennsylvania Legislature is no stranger to dissension. The state isn’t Democratic or Republican, after all. It isn’t even a muddled, muted purple....

The United States Constitution and all the state constitutions establish legislatures and give those legislatures the authority to set their own rules...

Tightening rules on elections has been a hot topic in recent years. It’s an idea that has gotten top-down attention. Donald Trump brought heat to it w...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — ”This seems to be more about the person than about the crime.” — Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La. The senator’s raising the right question...

Decades ago, when the late Nevada Sen. Harry Reid was relatively new to the upper chamber, a book arrived at the offices of a Las Vegas newspaper cour...

The state government uses tax credits as currency to entice private sector development. So, not surprisingly, some private-sector entities also use th...

Israel was on the brink, but stepped away from the cliff's edge at the last moment. Though this development is welcome, the nation's spate of problems...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators John Fetterman, D-Pa., Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, introduced the Railway Accountability Act to address ad...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania law makes a variety of tax credits available to businesses as a strategy to grow the economy. Not every tax credit, however,...