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On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, host Janine Stanwood was joined by Andy and Melissa Fernandez, Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez, Florida Senate Minority Leader Jason Pizzo and Monroe County Administrator Christine Hurley.
The second part of Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s top priority to limit lawsuits and large verdicts won final approval from the House on Thursday.
Despite dying during last year’s legislative session, two bills in the Florida House and Senate are once again trying to further keep local governments from banning plastic.
Democrat James Andrew Malone has narrowly won a special election for a Pennsylvania state Senate seat in a stretch of Republican-leaning suburbs and farming communities.
The United States is on track to hit its statutory debt ceiling — the so-called X-date when the country runs short of money to pay its bills— as early as August without a deal between lawmakers and the White House.
Delaware lawmakers are putting aside protests from big investors and approving fast-tracked legislation that backers say will protect its status as the world's corporate capital.
Senate Democrats accuse the Environmental Protection Agency of breaking the law when they cancelled grants worth more than $1.5 billion focused on improving the environment in minority communities hit hard by pollution.
Florida lawmakers are looking to children to fill low-wage jobs left open by the undocumented immigration crackdown, CNN reports.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says he won’t resign his post, despite pressure from some in the party after he voted to move forward with Republican spending legislation that avoided a government shutdown.
Voters in two Pennsylvania state legislative districts will elect new members in special elections Tuesday.
Senate Democrats were grim Friday as they left Washington after a brutal 10-week stretch that consistently showed the limits of their new minority and culminated with a deeply personal rupture over how to best counter President Donald Trump.
The Senate has swiftly approved legislation that would allow the District of Columbia to keep its budget intact.
The Democratic Party appears fractured as a torrent of frustration and anger has been unleashed on Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer.
The Senate passed a six-month spending bill on Friday, hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure and sending it to President Donald Trump to be signed into law.
The Senate has passed a Republican-led six-month spending bill hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure.
Republican lawmakers in Kentucky have added several medical exceptions to the state’s near-total abortion ban.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has announced he's ready to start the process of considering a Republican-led spending bill to prevent a midnight Friday government shutdown.
The House has passed legislation to avert a partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies through September.
Georgia’s Senate has passed a bill that would allow President Donald Trump and more than a dozen people to seek compensation for legal bills stemming from an attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state.
Elon Musk has visited Capitol Hill for private meetings with Republicans about his Department of Government Efficiency's budget slashing.
Some Georgia lawmakers are trying to get rid of automated cameras that enforce school zone speed limits, saying the cameras are more about making money than the safety of children.
The Senate has rejected legislation aiming to bar transgender women and girls from participating in school athletic competitions designated for female athletes.
Democrats filled Republican town halls during the congressional break to protest President Donald Trump’s power grab in Washington.
Argentina’s President Javier Milei has temporarily appointed two Supreme Court judges by decree, bypassing Congress during its summer recess to push through a controversial candidate in a move criticized as an overreach of executive power.
Another $500 million would be spent toward Hurricane Helene recovery efforts in North Carolina in legislation approved unanimously by the state House.
Trooper, the Florida dog abandoned during Hurricane Milton evacuations and rescued by a Florida Highway Patrol trooper, is the inspiration behind a Senate Bill making its way through the Florida Legislature.
Republican lawmakers in some states are threatening local officials with lawsuits, fines and jail time if they resist President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration.
The budget resolution from Republicans was on the agenda in the Senate, but the nearly all-night debate encompassed so much more.
Republican senators pushed a $340 billion budget framework to passage over Democratic objections after a nearly all-night vote.
Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell has announced that he won’t seek reelection next year, ending a decadeslong tenure as a power broker who championed conservative causes but ultimately ceded ground to the fierce GOP populism of President Donald Trump.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has teed up a vote on a budget plan that sets the stage for a massive boost in defense and border security spending, and leaves a looming tax cut fight for later this year.
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte has asked the Supreme Court to void her impeachment and block a Senate trial that could remove her from office.
President Donald Trump seems to have questioned a well-documented part of Sen. Mitch McConnell’s life — his childhood battle with polio.
Senate Republicans are vowing to move quickly on a budget plan that could pave the way for about $340 billion in additional border security and defense spending.
Georgia’s state Senate has passed a bill that would cut off public funding for gender affirming care for adults.
States are absorbing substantial increases in health care costs for the poor, as they realize that the people remaining on Medicaid rolls after the COVID-19 pandemic are sicker than anticipated and costlier to care for.
A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that the swing state’s nonpartisan top elections official can remain in her post despite not being reappointed and confirmed by the state Senate.
House Republicans have missed another deadline to produce a massive budget package of tax cuts and slashed spending.
Georgia's state Senate approved a bill that would prevent transgender women from competing in women's sports.
Labor unions that serve teachers, firefighters, police and other public employees in Utah will no longer be able to negotiate on behalf of their workers under a bill that has received final legislative approval.
President Donald Trump’s early moves, such as trying to slash the federal government and imposing tariffs on key allies, are testing how far Republicans are willing to go in supporting his supercharged “Make America Great Again” agenda.
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte has been impeached on a range of accusations that include plotting to assassinate the president and engaging in large-scale corruption.
Tennessee lawmakers have approved legislation drastically expanding the number of families who can use taxpayer money on private schools regardless of income.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis officially called a special session starting Monday to make tough state immigration law despite House and Senate leaders of his same party team defying the call as premature and calling it irresponsible.
The Senate has confirmed Pete Hegseth as the nation’s defense secretary in a dramatic late-night vote.
The first bill signed by President Donald Trump is named after a slain Georgia nursing student whose name became a rallying cry during Trump’s White House campaign.
Many Republicans on Capitol Hill do not agree with President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon and commute sentences for more than 1,500 people charged with crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
The Senate has passed a bill that would require federal authorities to detain migrants accused of theft and violent crimes.
The Senate has confirmed Marco Rubio as secretary of state, giving President Donald Trump the first member of his Cabinet.
It's unclear who'll take over at the Pentagon and the military services when the top leaders all step down Monday as President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office.
The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it shortly after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote.
The Senate is set for an Inauguration Day vote on legislation that would require federal authorities to detain migrants accused of theft and violent crimes.
Florida lawmakers are rejecting Governor Ron DeSantis’ push for a special legislative session aimed at enforcing stricter immigration laws ahead of President- elect Donald Trump stepping into office.
Some current and former defense leaders and veterans are questioning whether Pete Hegseth would be able to enforce discipline in the ranks if the Senate confirms him as President-elect Donald Trump's defense secretary.
Prosecutors say former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez should be imprisoned for 15 years after the Democrat became the first to be convicted of abusing a Senate committee leadership position and the first public official to be convicted of serving as a foreign agent.
Newly in the minority, Democrats voted with Republicans on Thursday to advance legislation that would require federal authorities to detain unauthorized immigrants who have been accused of certain crimes — signaling that they will try and find spots to work with President-elect Donald Trump while simultaneously trying to block much of his agenda.
President-elect Donald Trump has raised more than $170 million for his upcoming inauguration, a record amount as tech executives and big donors have eagerly written large checks.
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ plan to let voters repeal and create state laws without legislative involvement met opposition from the Republican leaders of the Legislature, who signaled that the idea is likely to be rejected for a second time.
New Senate Majority Leader John Thune is kicking off the new session with a promise to preserve the filibuster, saying in his first floor speech as leader that his priority will be to “ensure the Senate stays the Senate.”.
Virginia voters will begin the new year filling state Senate and House vacancies on Tuesday in a trio of special elections that could determine control of the narrowly divided chambers.
Republican Mike Johnson has narrowly won reelection to the House speakership on a dramatic first-ballot vote, overcoming hard-right GOP holdouts in a tense standoff.
The fate of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet is still unclear after Republican senators spent much of December carefully dodging questions.
President Joe Biden has vetoed a once-bipartisan effort to add 66 new federal district judgeships.
President Joe Biden has signed the annual defense authorization bill into law despite his objections to language banning transgender health care for military children.
The Senate has rushed through final passage of a bipartisan plan to fund federal operations and prevent a government shutdown.
With hours to go before a midnight government shutdown, the House has approved a new plan from House Speaker Mike Johnson that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but dropped President-elect Donald Trump’s demands for a debt limit increase into the new year.
The U.S. Commerce Department’s efforts to curb China’s and Russia’s access to American-made advanced computer chips have been “inadequate” and will need more funding to stymie their ability to manufacture advanced weapons.
The Senate has passed a defense bill that authorizes significant pay raises for junior enlisted service members and boosts overall military spending to $895 billion.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is challenging President-elect Donald Trump to reject the isolationist voices within their party and build his foreign policy around military strength.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, a childhood polio survivor, said any of President-elect Donald Trump’s picks requiring Senate confirmation should “steer clear” of efforts to discredit the polio vaccine.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is still suffering from the effects of a fall in the Senate earlier this week and is missing votes on Thursday due to leg stiffness, according to his office.
The Senate is pushing toward a vote on legislation that would provide full Social Security benefits to millions of people.
The House has passed what was once a bipartisan effort to expand the number of federal district trial court judgeships across the country.
President-elect Donald Trump says he’s picking Kari Lake as director of Voice of America, installing a staunch loyalist who ran unsuccessfully for Arizona governor and a Senate seat to head the congressionally funded broadcaster that provides independent news reporting around the world.
Senate Democrats failed in their bid to confirm a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board after the Senate rejected a razor-thin vote that hinged on the pivotal rejections of independent Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.
