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Gov. Andrew Cuomo may have announced his resignation over allegations of sexual harassment, but Republican lawmakers want impeachment proceedings to c...

So far, the bipartisan infrastructure deal is going through the normal life cycle of such proposals — alive, dead, revived, uncertain. For Republicans...

Joe Manchin is being pilloried for the offense of being consistent on the filibuster. Back in 2017, when Senate Democrats were desperate to stop Donal...

ALBANY — Liberal groups are calling on New York lawmakers to use the last days of the legislative session to pass bills related to the criminal justic...

ALBANY — The fate of a bill to give people sexually abused as adults a chance to sue the perpetrators was unclear Thursday when it unanimously passed ...

The Democratic opposition to legislative minorities using whatever leverage they have to block legislation is highly situational. In Washington, D.C.,...

It may seem impossible to imagine now, but there was a time not long ago when Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell were angry with Donald Trump. It was ...

ALBANY — Sen. George Borrello and fellow Republicans in the State Senate called on the Legislature and Cuomo administration to “fix multiple issues th...

ALBANY — State Sen. George Borrello and fellow Republicans continued to bash the so-called “repeal” of the governors emergency powers during the coron...

ALBANY (TNS) — New York lawmakers put the finishing touches on a piece of legislation mandating extensive new workplace health and safety protections ...

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia has it right: The filibuster should not be eliminated. The Senate needs the filibuster as a tool to drive the t...

Just six months ago — it seems like so much longer — many Democrats were supremely confident about their prospects in the 2020 election. Some saw Joe ...

How Texas fetal heartbeat bill advances cause — perhaps all the way to Supreme Court For millions of parents the world over, the image of a tiny heart...

The Senate will soon be asked to vote on contentious bills to tighten gun controls and reform the country’s electoral systems. As things stand, these ...

In early March, President Joe Biden met with a group of seven historians in the East Room of the White House. One topic of conversation: Franklin Dela...

On April 7, 2017, less than four years ago, a majority of Democrats in the U.S. Senate joined a majority of Republicans to sign a letter supporting th...

ALBANY (TNS) — The state Senate and Assembly were scheduled to vote today on their versions of New York’s 2021-22 budget — and stark differences remai...

In a swipe at Gov. Andrew Cuomo releasing a book touting his leadership during the coronavirus pandemic, state Sen. George Borrello has introduced leg...