Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-Pa.) was a behind-the-scenes force in helping balance the demands of fiscal hawks with leadership’s ...

Though the government reopened, Republicans are still stuck. The Senate is to vote as soon as next week on the future of the ...

During next year’s legislative session, Republican leaders say the General Assembly will craft a budget aimed at housing and ...

Not long ago, seven committee chairs hailed from the Lone Star State. Now its delegation is young, large and unsettled.

House and Senate Republicans say they have a “front row seat to a train wreck” next month as the Legislature prepares to fill ...

Republicans are in danger of losing the House in the midterm elections, former Ohio Republican governor John Kasich said ...

Cox is not proposing an income tax cut, nor is he asking for new full-time employees in the state’s executive branch as part ...

Warning signs: Former Illinois GOP Chair Pat Brady sees the result as part of a broader trend that should concern Republicans ...

Minnesota’s latest budget forecast shows a bigger surplus than previously predicted, but still predicts a deficit in a few ...

State Budget Secretary Uri Monson is leaving Gov. Josh Shapiro’s cabinet to serve as executive director of the Pennsylvania ...

The state price tag of administering the program has risen dramatically in recent years, far outpacing the voter-imposed cap ...

The Minnesota budget office is projecting an increasing deficit for the state in its next budget cycle, despite cuts during ...