A potential pay raise for lawmakers — which would be a first in nearly 15 years — remains an open issue in negotiations over the final fiscal 2024 Legislative Branch appropriations measure.

It is often said that Congress is “broken.” But for each of the last fifty-nine years, Congress has enacted one major bill on a bipartisan basis without the looming threat of a crisis or shutdown: the ...

MINOT, N.D. — All due respect to Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem, who has announced that he'll be winding up a wonderful and very consequential career in North Dakota politics at the end of his ...

The House Appropriations Committee advanced a draft fiscal 2027 Legislative Branch spending bill on Wednesday that would ...

Since President Donald Trump reentered the White House in January, his administration has, in part, been defined by its blatant effort to seize power from the legislative branch. Experts tell TPM that ...

The U.S. federal government comprises 3 different branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. The powers of these three branches of government were defined in by the U.S. Constitution, which has ...

Although the Constitution contains no explicit prohibition against Congress delegating its legislative powers (to the President or an administrative agency, for example), the principle of ...

The ASUW Legislative branch is comprised of 21 Senators elected by the student body. The purpose of the ASUW Senate is to represent student voices through legislative acts such as Bills and ...