Virginia lawmakers agree to extend budget talks as they take up Youngkin amendments, vetoes Gambling regulations, school construction and the state budget are on the agenda as Virginia lawmakers return to Richmond to consider Republican Gov. 04/17/2024 - 11:36 am | View Link
Youngkin, Virginia lawmakers agree to seek new state budget, avert crisis Budget negotiators aim to submit a new budget in a special legislative session May 13, returning two days later to vote on it. 04/17/2024 - 6:13 am | View Link
California lawmakers vote to reduce deficit by $17 billion, but harder choices lie ahead SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California lawmakers don't know for sure how big their budget deficit is, but on Thursday they decided it's big enough to go ahead and reduce spending by about $17 billion. 04/11/2024 - 7:30 am | View Link
House GOP moves quickly to install new spending chief House Republicans are expected to move quickly this week to install a new head of the powerful House Appropriations Committee, as the party looks to get a strong start crafting plans for how to ... 04/8/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
NYS Assembly passes stopgap spending plan ahead of eclipse day off as budget talks drag on State lawmakers are set to pass another temporary spending measure to keep the government open as budget talks drag on into their second week after politicians blew an April 1 deadline. The state ... 04/7/2024 - 10:27 am | View Link
Former Trump attorney Tim Parlatore explains what he thinks could happen if prosecutors in Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial bring up Trump's other legal problems. He also shares whether he thinks the former president should testify.
President Joe Biden called China “xenophobic” while highlighting the Asian nation’s economic woes, as he sought to make the case for U. S. economic strength during a campaign stop in the swing state of Pennsylvania.
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“They’ve got a population that is more people in retirement than working. They’re not importing anything.
Colorado lawmakers are abandoning plans to overhaul the Regional Transportation District’s governing board and change how its members are selected after transit officials blasted the plan.
Reps. William Lindstedt and Meg Froelich said Wednesday that they are still set to pursue other RTD reforms through House Bill 1447. But they said they plan to drop the bill’s most contentious provision: a plan to eventually cut the board’s size down from 15 elected, voting members to seven voting members — with five elected and two appointed by the governor.
Froelich and Lindstedt told fellow legislators they wanted to further discuss board reform over the coming months.
“We ultimately feel that those sections of the bill should come out, and we will want a longer process,” said Froelich, an Englewood Democrat.