CT bill on abuse allegation cases puts child advocate, DCF at odds
Christina Ghio, the state’s acting child advocate, spoke in support of Senate Bill 1215, “An Act Concerning Certain Abused ...
Senate Breakfast Club wields gavel power in new GOP majority
Nearly every member of the Breakfast Club, an informal band of fiscal hawks, was doled out a chairmanship at the start of the ...
Musk invades closely held U.S. data as Republicans watch in silence
In 1989, the Senate Committee on Aging learned that the Social Security Administration was entering into an agreement to ...
'I want people to be able to rely on rail': Oregon lawmakers push for rail funding in transportation package
ODOT's structural funding challenges for road and bridge maintenance is a top agenda item in the 2025 session, but a handful ...
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Russell Vought isn't a normal Cabinet pick. Democrats were right to make a scene.
On Thursday, Donald Trump’s nominee for budget director, Russell Vought, passed through his Senate committee hearing 11-0, a unanimous vote. Vought's nomination will now go to the full Senate.
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Vermont Agency of Education Secretary Saunders presents funding formula details to Senate committees
The Vermont Senate Finance and Education committees got their first look on Thursday at the details of a plan set to transform the state’s education landscape. Agency of Education Secretary Zoie ...
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Mexico's Senate to choose judicial candidates by drawing, bypassing evaluation committee
MEXICO CITY - Mexico's Senate will use a drawing to choose the candidates to compete for judge and magistrate positions in June elections, resulting in members of an evaluation committee resigning ...
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Senate environment committee announces panel leaders
Freshman Republican Sen. John Curtis of Utah has secured a key subcommittee leadership role in the Environment and Public Works Committee. Curtis will chair the Chemical Safety, Waste Management ...
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Longer school year, higher teacher pay on Senate Education Committee agenda
Bills that would increase teacher pay and extend the length of the Oklahoma school year by a week are top of mind for leaders of the Senate's Education Committee as the 2025 legislative session ...
Data centers are booming in Texas. What does that mean for the grid?
The rise of artificial intelligence, the digitization of the economy and everyday life’s growing computing needs have turbocharged the expansion of data centers, driving up a surge in electricity ...