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A group of Massachusetts lawmakers are looking to toughen protections for homeowners four years after the nation's highest court ruled cities may bulldoze people's houses to make way for shopping malls.

At a ceremony this month, an official painting of California Rep. Jerry Lewis will be installed in the room where the Republican once presided over the House Appropriations Committee.

Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives' votes on three roll calls and local senators' votes on four roll calls from the week of June 1 to 5. 78-78 Tie Vote Saves Two Suffolk County-Only Holidays House, on a 78-78 tie vote, rejected a Republican-sponsored amendment that would have abolished the Suffolk County legal holidays of ...

OKLAHOMA CITY a ' Fifteen members of the Oklahoma House and six members of the Senate reported getting contributions from lobbyists or companies that employ them since the start of the 2009 Legislature despite a state law passed last year that prohibits the practice, according to documents filed with the Oklahoma Ethics Commission.

These should be prime party-building days for Massachusetts' beleaguered GOP: the economy stinks; Democratic Gov.

Since 1991, the Citizens Against Government Waste, a non-partisan, non-profit group in Washington D.C., has been publishing an annual list of pork-barrel projects in an effort to shame politicians into curbing their earmark requests.

The Democrats in Congress have gotten themselves into a bit of a tangle over gay rights.

After officially naming its proposed downtown Knoxville law school for U.S. Rep.

Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland says Wednesday she is, quote, "grossly disappointed and frankly mad" about a continuing backlog of more than 200,000 unpaid health insurance claims in a state workers' insurance plan.

There's an old saying to the effect: People get the government they deserve. I used to agree with it, but one month into the legislative session, I have to ask what we Oklahomans did to deserve this.

South Carolina Republican legislators need to leave well enough alone. For years now, it has irked some GOP officials that it's highly likely that at least a few Democrats are voting in Republican primaries.

Ron Lewis retired last year after eight terms in the U.S. House representing Kentucky's 2nd District.

Brett Guthrie claims to have the 435th best office in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives' votes on three roll calls from prior legislative sessions.

Their numbers may be small, but Beacon Hill Republicans are beginning to see a winning issue in the fight over raising the gas tax as it appears to be drawing Democrats to their side.

It's supposed to be a reflection group, this early-morning gathering of a half-dozen members of Congress.

Republican leadership in control of the state House and Senate will have an aggressive agenda to reform workers' compensation this legislative session.

Campbellsville University students to attend Obama inauguration By Joan C. McKinney, CU news and publications coordinator CAMPBELLSVILLE, KY - Forty-two students and faculty members from Campbellsville ...

WASHINGTON -- He got a ceremonial swearing-in photo with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a warm welcome from the rest of the Kentucky congressional delegation, and Richard Nixon's old office.

Kentucky's newest congressman has hired a staff and moved into his Capitol Hill office.