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30 Nov 2010, 3:42 am
To be sure, in today's Washington Post, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell state that they are ready and even eager to work with the Democrats. [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 3:30 am
One exception is when a state legislature deems a certain contractual provisions invalid as a matter of public policy. [read post]
29 Nov 2010, 6:38 am
Senate President Stephen Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver unveiled the proposal at the Statehouse and said it also calls for the cap to be removed after three years, the average length of police and firefighter contracts, to allow the State to gauge its effectiveness. [read post]
28 Nov 2010, 7:39 am
Protected by a potent mix of gerrymandering, pork, seniority and a friends-and-neighbors electorate, Democratic state representatives and senators managed to survive through the South’s GOP evolution—the Reagan years, the Republican landslide of 1994 and George W. [read post]
23 Nov 2010, 12:22 pm
I am calling upon my colleagues in the Legislature to step up and co-sponsor legislation that will protect the rights of citizens in New Jersey,” Doherty continued. [read post]
22 Nov 2010, 11:26 am
The most direct head-to-head contest was an issue election, not a candidate race: The NRA and its allies in the Arizona legislature placed a constitutional amendment on the ballot, Proposition 109, which would have made hunting a constitutional right and the preferred method of wildlife management in the state. [read post]
22 Nov 2010, 8:34 am
” (That would be Chair of the Senate Rules Committee). [read post]
22 Nov 2010, 5:33 am
First, a minority of the Senate plays an obstructionist role, which means that the United States simply doesn’t join important treaties: For much of the world, treaty ratification is a simple matter. [read post]
18 Nov 2010, 1:52 pm
When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct. [read post]
18 Nov 2010, 1:09 pm
Now the Legislature has passed the long awaited revisions to the Massachusetts Homestead Act (Senate Bill 2406), giving homeowners expanded protection. [read post]
18 Nov 2010, 7:48 am
Next, the Democratic leader of the state senate announced that, even if a majority of state senators from both parties asked for the matter to be put to a vote in the next election, he would block it under his special powers as senate president. [read post]
18 Nov 2010, 6:00 am
Rarely in our history has it been more important that the State has a fully functional Legislature. [read post]
18 Nov 2010, 3:29 am
The partisan mix in the Senate was unchanged, although Republicans still hold a 19-12 majority. [read post]
18 Nov 2010, 2:26 am
The partisan mix in the Senate was unchanged, although Republicans still hold a 19-12 majority. [read post]
17 Nov 2010, 11:54 am
NY Senator Chuck Schumer, who has been lobbying for a ban on the drinks, stated that the FDA decision “…should be the nail in the coffin of these dangerous and toxic drinks. [read post]
16 Nov 2010, 8:58 am
On October 12, 2010, I had the honor of interviewing retired United States Senator Birch Bayh at his office at Venable LLP. [read post]
16 Nov 2010, 4:48 am
’” Local reports note that the original circuit judge hearing the matter has been elected to the state senate and the remand hearing will likely before a new judge, i.e., one that didn’t preside over the trial. [read post]
15 Nov 2010, 12:12 pm
George Ryan’s imposing a moratorium on executions, then-State Senator Barack Obama and others’ pushing through reforms and Mr. [read post]
15 Nov 2010, 11:55 am
Plus, as Ed Morrissey noted last fall: “Who could have warned us that a man who served seven years in the state legislature and three years in the Senate would not have been prepared for the toughest executive position in the Free World? [read post]
15 Nov 2010, 11:51 am
One of the worrisome results of the 2010 mid-term elections is the increasingly radical fringe that is now installed in the House (and in state houses and in some Senate seats). [read post]
