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Budget compromise fails to get two-thirds majority in House

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FBI alleges Pennsylvania man rifled through US Senate papers

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., pose after signing the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill during an enrollment ceremony on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 10, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Congress OKs $1.9T virus relief bill in win for Biden, Dems

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2021 file photo, House Speaker Clay Schexnayder, R-Gonzales, left, asks questions during a meeting of Louisiana's income forecasting panel, the Revenue Estimating Conference, while Senate President Page Cortez, R-Lafayette, listens in Baton Rouge, La. Louisiana’s chapter of the NAACP has filed a federal complaint against the organization that state Republican legislative leaders have created to promote their agenda. The complaint filed Thursday, March 11 argues the nonprofit launched by Cortez and Schexnayder is violating its tax-exempt status by regularly engaging in political activity. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte, File)

Complaint targets Louisiana lawmakers’ ‘dark money’ group

By MELINDA DESLATTE - Associated Press

In this Jan. 19, 2016, file photo, handguns are displayed at the Smith &amp; Wesson booth at the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File) ** FILE **

House Democrats pass sweeping gun background-check legislation

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Effort to block clean energy rules stumbles in Legislature

By BOB CHRISTIE - Associated Press

Kentucky House Representatives Ken Fleming, left, and Jason Nemes, right, talk while fellow house member Kelly Flood makes a point via video conference during an education committee meeting on House bill 563 at the State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky., Thursday, March 11, 2021. (Pat McDonogh/Courier Journal via AP)

House passes bill to allow education opportunity accounts

By BRUCE SCHREINER - Associated Press

FILE - This Monday, March 8, 2021, file photo shows New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaking at a vaccination site in New York. A sixth woman has come forward alleging that Cuomo inappropriately touched her late last year, during an encounter at the governor's mansion. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool, File)

Resignation demands grow as police get Cuomo groping report

By MARINA VILLENEUVE - Associated Press

Kentucky Senate votes to make it a crime to taunt police

By PIPER HUDSPETH BLACKBURN - Associated Press

State Rep. Bill Rehm, shakes the plexiglass next to his chair to demonstrate the COVID-19 safety features on the floor of the House during the annual legislative session on Monday, Jan. 25, 2021, in Santa Fe, N.M. Most Democratic legislators have appeared in sessions remotely either from their home or office out of concern for COVID-19, while most GOP members are appearing on the house floor in person arguing masking and dividers make the building safe. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)

Policing reforms gain momentum in New Mexico

By MORGAN LEE - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks after meeting with Senate Republicans, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

House Democrats flood Senate with partisan bills in scheme to scrap filibuster

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Senate panel revises bill creating open-records restrictions

By BRUCE SCHREINER - Associated Press

President Donald Trump elbow bumbs with Herschel Walker during a campaign rally, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

Herschel Walker Georgia Senate run urged by Donald Trump

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Former Sen. Jensen announces GOP candidacy for governor

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., flanked by Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., left, and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., holds a news conference ahead of the vote on the Democrat's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 9, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress OKs $1.9T virus relief bill in win for Biden, Dems

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

Maryland bill would ban firearms at election sites

By CATHERINE SCOTT of Capital News Service - Associated Press

New Mexico Legislature approves liquor license overhaul

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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, center, and lawmakers gather Wednesday, March 10, 2021, for a news conference to announce that leaders of the Republican-led state legislature and the governor have reached an agreement to reopen the state's K-12 public schools to full-time daily instruction in Raleigh. (Juli Leonard/The News &amp; Observer via AP)

Cooper, legislative leaders announce deal on K-12 schools

By GARY D. ROBERTSON - Associated Press

A representative's laptop displays a bill under consideration at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, March 9, 2021. Lawmakers have a Wednesday deadline for original floor action on general bills and constitutional amendments originating in the other House. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi House nixes change to tourism promotion

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

Newly-elected State Sen. Craig Hickman, D-Winthrop, looks at paperwork, Wednesday, March 10, 2021, at the Augusta Civic Center in Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Senator is 1st Black legislator to serve in both chambers

By DAVID SHARP - Associated Press