The Iowa Senate passed its version of education reform Monday, a significant step in what is becoming a legislative melee to find agreement among proposals from the governor and both parties before lawmakers go home.

Maryland is on its way to becoming the first state to ban an arsenic additive in chicken feed, and a doubling of the state#39;s quot;flush taxquot; advanced in the state Senate as lawmakers spent a busy Saturday working on a wide variety of measures.

HARTFORD, Conn., April 4 (UPI) -- Connecticut lawmakers are considering whether the state should repeal the death penalty, a bill the governor says he would sign if it clears the Legislature.

It took less than two weeks for lawmakers to vote to break new rules requiring that new spending be offset elsewhere in the budget, waiving the requirement just minutes before a strong bipartisan majority passed a $15 billion job-creation bill in the Senate on Wednesday. The bill ...

Senators on both sides of the aisle sounded off today after hearing arguments before the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the health care law, with lawmakers from both parties intimating that their side has the upper hand. After hearing today’s arguments before the Supreme Court on the constitutionality...