This year's ballot features three Democratic justices up for retention: Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty and David Wecht.

If the justices aren't retained, the Democratic governor and the Republican-controlled Senate could agree on temporary ...

Major elections in New Jersey, Virginia, and NYC grab national attention three days before voting. State races seen as ...

Trump’s sudden decision to assert himself into the shutdown debate — bringing the highly charged demand to end the filibuster ...

Questions about the age and fitness for office of certain lawmakers are spurring conversations about whether Congress, as a ...

President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster, so that the Republican majority can bypass Democrats ...

The crux of the dispute focuses on Senate Rule XXII, which requires a 60-vote threshold to cut off debate. The threshold used to be ... But three other senators – Democrats John Fetterman of ...

As partisan divide keeps Pennsylvania the only state without a complete budget, one lawmaker decided to go through each proposal line by line, and he found there’s plenty of ...

Pennsylvania’s constitution lays out a clear procedure for filling a Supreme Court vacancy. If the justices close out their ...

Just three Democrats crossed the aisle in the failed 54-45 vote: Pennsylvania Sen ... These are "legislative days" when the U ...

Pennsylvania's ongoing budget deadlock has sparked fears of cuts to social services and potential unpaid furloughs.

The most powerful Republican in North Carolina, Senate leader Phil Berger, cut off Senate Democrats’ debate Monday night during a controversial map vote, in a rare move the minority party leader ...