The administration framed the budget as a 13% increase, but that includes a spending package Congress has yet to pass.

JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri House of Representatives passed Senate Bills 49 and 118 Wednesday, which would allow school districts to employ or accept chaplains as volunteers. Representatives discussed the legislation for over two hours on the House floor, with pushback from many Democrats.

The House of Representatives passed legislation targeting universities for maintaining partnerships with Chinese government-backed entities, including Confucius Institutes, in a bipartisan manner 266 to 153 on Wednesday afternoon.

Republican lawmakers are calling the White House’s defense budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year an overall cut to the military following Friday’s release of the so-called skinny budget. While the White House is claiming that the Fiscal Year 2026 proposal would include the first $1 trillion defense budget,

Here is a look at what state lawmakers passed. The Texas House gave initial approval to House Bill 3225 by State Rep ... essentially an affirmative defense to any ticket that would be given ...

As the Texas House races to vote on more than 400 bills ahead of a Thursday deadline, it passed several that would strengthen the state's Second Amendment protections. Under House rules, bills that aren’t voted on by midnight on Thursday will effectively die.