In explaining the patterns, the report pointed to Arkansas's small size that allows grassroots politics to have an impact on policy, the fact that advocacy groups work remarkably well together in coalitions, and a distinctly depoliticized state ...

Boehner issued a statement Thursday signed by the members of his leadership team and Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va.

"Like 84 percent of Arkansans I support universal background checks," Angela Bradford-Barnes, a former financial officer for the Democratic Party of Arkansas, says in the ad. "Thus, I was heartbroken to see that Senator Pryor opposed the bipartisan ...

Legislators who think the Kansas Senate should have the power to confirm appellate court judges, including Supreme Court justices, have a new plan that they hope will be approved before lawmakers adjourn this year, an influential senator involved in ...

Investigators also determined that two wanted federal fugitives from Arkansas had been living with Leaming in his home. Finally, the search revealed that Leaming and Stephenson, who was an ... When contacted by local law enforcement, members of the ...

Trent Franks's House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice heard testimony on his District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which bans abortions after 20 weeks based on the controversial assertion that a ...

By HEIDI PRZYBYLA AND KATHLEEN HUNTER BLOOMBERG NEWS. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that he will take the �strong bipartisan� immigration bill approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee to the chamber's floor in June.

On March 26, the Delaware Senate passed a repeal bill, 11-0, although the House Judiciary Committee later tabled it. In Colorado, a repeal bill was killed the same day.

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, led by the bill's sponsor, Rep. ... Arkansas meanwhile <a href="http://www.

A couple of weeks ago, I inveighed against one small stupid injustice: treating 17-year-olds as adults in Massachusetts' courts and throwing them into adult prisons. Teens imprisoned with adults are far more likely to be raped, far more likely to ...