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As New York's Legislative session enters its final hours, a plan to provide funds for the MTA to continue critical upgrade projects is hanging by a thread after Gov. Kathy Hochul indefinitely paused the congestion pricing program in New York City. ...
The North Carolina General Assembly met the deadline imposed by the North Carolina Supreme Court and approved new congressional and state legislative district maps on Thursday, Feb. 17. The deadline was Friday. The state House maps had bipartisan support in the legislature. However, both the stat...
27, 2025 at 12:53 PM GMT+8| By Garner Montgomery The Tennessee General Assembly will soon convene for a special legislative session, where the Education Freedom Act will be put to a vote. The legislature will also address hurricane relief funds and illegal immigration. News State senator’s ...
Methods. Using interest group rating scores, I examine the voting behavior of representatives in the lower houses of 28 states in legislative sessions from 1995 to 2000. By controlling for a host of variables related to legislators (political party, years of service, etc.) and their districts ...
This disfavor [for repeal by implication] is the result of a presumption that the Legislature acts with a knowledge of former related statutes and would have expressed its intention to repeal them. However, this presumption runs directly counter to the real probability of legislative oversight that...
However, less is known about the criteria by which constituents reward their state representatives. Part of the problem with resolving these questions at the state level has been the absence of data, since individual-level data on state legislative districts are hard to find and are unlikely to ...
The book isn’t closed on legislative redistricting quite yet —seven statesstill don’t have new maps — but one trend is already clear: Just as congressional redistricting is producingfewer swing districts, very few state-legislative chamberswill be competitive this decade. ...
State legislative districts are diverse; they range in population from 2,706 to 971,140. The median age ranges from 19.5 years to 63.7 years. Use theinteractive table belowto view other demographic characteristics. Compare districts of interest. ...