A House Appropriations subcommittee on Thursday advanced the fiscal 2025 Legislative Branch spending bill, which would provide $5.5 billion for House and joint items, a 3.5 percent increase from ...

The time has come to set the record straight about Constitutional Amendment 1, a proposal that would provide Kentucky’s legislative branch with more authority over when it meets. The current ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Rules and ...

On Wednesday, November 12, 2025, the President signed into law: H.R. 5371, the “Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions ...

Senate appropriators approved their fiscal 2026 Legislative Branch bill Thursday, which would boost spending for Congress by roughly 5 percent and avoid cuts to the Government Accountability Office.

President Biden’s executive order mandating COVID-19 vaccines for federal workers applies only to those in the executive branch of government. Congress is in the legislative branch, one of three ...

Cutting funding for the legislative branch makes Congress less competent and more reliant on special interests. As Congress writes spending bills that attempt to implement the first year of its budget ...

When he was first elected, President Barack Obama proclaimed to the nation that he would not just wait for Congress to act. “I’ve got a pen,” the president said. It’s likely that those who agreed with ...

The Review-Journal’s Sept. 9 editorial, “Civil forfeiture horror story shows need for reform,” is another in a long line of editorials seeking to end the abuse of government power embedded in civil ...

State employees who work for House and Senate and other agencies that support the Legislature will continue to be paid through the end of the new special session under a plan devised by Republican ...