Lawmakers will have to approve the two-year state budget, which includes a cigarette tax hike and universal school choice.

The Appropriations Committee’s budget would invest in K-12 schools, higher education and child care — but legally exceed the ...

Ottawa County Commissioners voted to amend rules regarding logo usage and “calling the question.” Commissioners will receive ...

Under the last Trump administration, Connecticut’s top 1% saved $1.2 billion in federal taxes, while working families saw ...

Upon reaching a compromise, members of both the House ... bodies “whip” their membership trying to get the requisite three-fifths votes to override the governor’s veto.

Elon Musk’s DOGE and Trump’s executive orders are pushing Congress’s upper chamber from ineffectiveness to obsolescence. Will ...

In the famous compromise known as the three-fifths rule, the Constitution had allowed slave states to add 60 percent of their servile population to their white electorate in order to determine the ...

Piggybacking on the concept behind the three-fifths compromise, which allowed southern states to count three out of every five enslaved people for the purposes of Congressional representation ...

There is something deeper as well about the number five.

Additionally, by encouraging parties to negotiate and compromise early in the legislative ... for all judicial nominees to obtain a three-fifths majority in parliament to secure their place ...