House Speaker Martin Romualdez has refiled a crucial measure seeking to grant monthly hazard pay to public prosecutors exposed to life-threatening risks ...

The Senate confirmed some nominees Saturday, but left many others hanging before starting their August recess.

The U.S. Senate yesterday passed a bipartisan bill looking to appropriate funding to the U.S. military, advancing it with an ...

In 2014, I led the effort to secure pilot programs for industrial hemp, and I led the effort to legalize the crop in 2018.

The Alaska Legislature, meeting in special session, has overridden Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of more than $50 million in ...

Provisions in proposed federal legislation would limit enforcement of a mining ban in the same watershed as the Boundary ...

The Senate on Friday passed the fiscal year 2026 agriculture appropriations bill that funds the Agriculture Department, the Food and Drug Administration and related agencies.  The vote on the ...

The Senate took a significant step Friday towards averting a partial government shutdown in the fall by passing a tranche of government funding bills, much earlier than usual.

The Senate on Friday night adopted a 2026 spending bill for the Department of Veterans Affairs that invests in recruiting ...

Earmarks account for 0.5% of the House topline, and the total amount for requested earmarks is $23,394,859,447.

That’s a reference to the ongoing standoff Kennedy’s in with Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins of Maine over the energy and water bill, which last year directed nearly $60 billion in annual ...

President Trump, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) are making slow progress toward a deal to clear some of the Senate’s backlog of ...