Abbott is in Washington this week to lobby Congress for $11 billion to compensate Texas for money spent on immigration ...

Republicans are exploring cuts to Medicaid in an effort to pay for the president’s priorities. But public opinion, a divided ...

The proposed measures include a bill allowing incarcerated individuals to register and another that would require ID ...

GOP legislators and governors around the country are borrowing Trump's ideas and language on a host of issues. Separately, ...

Mandatory processes and detailed rules have increasingly constrained officials’ discretion, leading to endless lawsuits, decadeslong project delays and multibillion-dollar cost overruns. There’s a ...

State lawmakers have introduced bills to limit SNAP benefits, change vaccine policies and ban fluoride in public water.

Rep. Dustin Burrows is looking to change the dynamic among the "Big Three" – the governor, Lt. governor, and the House ...

The amount the U.S. House GOP raised the U.S. debt limit in their budget resolution, released Wednesday. The resolution, if adopted, would extend Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and boost border security ...

Tools are available to not only count people experiencing homelessness more accurately but also to provide them with ...

Jeff Landry signed a bill last year that classified abortion medications as controlled substances. (Gage Skidmore via Flickr) ...

Mike Madigan, a former state Democratic Party chair, had been the longest-serving chamber leader in U.S. history. A jury has ...

We should hold students to higher expectations and give them the support they need, and we need to give teachers the ...