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The Maryland Senate voted Friday to override Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto of a bill requiring employers to provide paid sick leave to hundreds of thousands of Maryland workers.

What are the priorities of Harford County's state legislators as they go into the 2018 Maryland General Assembly session, which started Wednesday?

The sad lesson from Florida - environmental protection comes with a political price.

Senate panel hears testimony on a bill that would terminate the parental rights of fathers when children are conceived in the course of rape.

The question of whether up to hundreds of thousands of Maryland workers will be entitled to paid sick leave is in the hands of the Senate after the House of Delegates.

A lawyer for indicted state Sen. Nathaniel Oaks apologized in court Thursday for saying in court papers that federal prosecutors had tried to "smear" his client.

Along with the pomp and circumstance that traditionally open the Maryland General Assembly, lawmakers convened Wednesday facing weighty issues and asking each other to set aside politics even though it is an election year.

With the 2018 Maryland Legislative Session officially underway, Carroll County’s delegation is heading into the 90-day session already having pre-filed a handful of bills.

Carroll County's lawmakers are generally supportive of Gov. Larry Hogan's call for term limits.

Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are calling on the Trump administration to vastly expand the U.S. response to Russian interference in elections, including with increased sanctions and an inter-agency body to coordinate government policies.

Maryland Democrats predict a "blue wave" at their annual pre-session luncheon and pep rally.

A day before the General Assembly returns, Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller said he plans to refer FBI charges against Sen. Nathaniel T. Oaks of Baltimore to the Ethics Committee — a move that could be the first step in Oaks’ removal.

Republican Gov. Larry Hogan proposed a new statewide investigator general to probe allegations of grade fixing, corruption and mismanagement in public schools across Maryland. Several Democrats and the state school board association rejected the idea.

Maryland's state lawmakers will convene in Annapolis next week with the daunting task of re-writing the state's tax code in an election year, stabilizing a health insurance market with skyrocketing premiums and reducing violent crime in Baltimore.

President Donald Trump will host congressional leaders at Camp David this weekend to map out a legislative strategy as Republicans weigh their priorities in what is certain to be a contentious midterm election year.

Gov. Larry Hogan threw his support behind a bill to let courts terminate the parental rights of fathers when the child was conceived through rape.

Josephine Olsen, a visiting professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work and a veteran official at the Peace Corps, will be named to lead the organization, the White House said Wednesday.

During the 2018 state legislative session, southwest county delegates plan to work on issues ranging from healthcare and education to beer.

Towson's state legislators ready their agendas for the coming General Assembly session

If Shelly Simonds wins her seat in a random name drawing set for Thursday, the Virginia Democrats should insist upon an immediate vote on the ERA as a precondition to all other power sharing.

With health care exchanges for buying coverage in various states struggling to hang on, the Trump administration, in collusion with a compliant Republican leadership on Capitol Hill, strives to sabotage Obamacare by a thousand bleeding cuts.

President Donald J. Trump remains deeply unpopular in Maryland, but his tumultuous first year in the White House left an unmistakable imprint on state politics.

Alabama reaffirms that character still counts in politics, says John Kass.

Fox might be the most prominent platform to have become more politically emboldened since the election of President Donald Trump, but it is only one of several that have taken a more partisan turn or made clear their intentions of serving the president’s goals in 2017.

Congress narrowly avoided a government shutdown Thursday with a short-term spending bill that punted thorny debates over immigration and health care to next month.

The tax cut legislation Republicans pushed through at warp speed is already unpopular. Wait 'til average voters actually experience it.

Democratic political veteran Patrick Murray named Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller's chief of staff.

Lawmakers were expected to give final approval Wednesday to a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s tax laws despite deep opposition from Democrats and a last-minute hiccup that forced Republican supporters to delay their celebration.

The political carnage of the Alabama Senate race has left the Grand Old Party badly in need of a credible old-time establishment leader to take him on. But none is in sight.

Even Fox viewers are beginning to abandon President Trump, says Jonah Goldberg.

Congressional Republicans were on the verge of approving the first major overhaul of the nation’s tax laws in three decades as negotiators locked down the final version of the bill Friday and two key Senate holdouts announced they would support the measure.

A state renewable energy program is sending millions of dollars of ratepayer subsidies to Baltimore's biggest polluter, the Wheelabrator incinerator. Community activists in South Baltimore are trying to increase recycling to essentially put the incinerator out of business.

The bad bet that Donald Trump made in Alabama may have other political ramifications down the road, says Jules Witcover

The rhetoric about the compromise House-Senate Republican tax cut bill offers a wealth of alternative facts.

This was not an election to decide whether Alabama favored a Republican candidate our a Democratic candidate. This was an election that pitted common decency and respect over indecency and outright criminal behavior.

President Donald Trump likes to brag about the growing stock market and the low unemployment during his presidency. The economy, he says, is doing great! Unless he needs to justify a tax cut for corporations and the rich. Then, he says, American corporations are stymied by high taxes.

The prospect of Roy Moore's election to the Senate has given us an opportunity to evaluate just how much moral clarity our politicians bring to their jobs. Here's a ranking.

Time magazine, a shell of its former self, has named the women who blew the whistle on a small army of prominent men accused of sexual misconduct in the workplacec. Whatever else the award amounts to, it certainly rates as a brilliant putdown of Donald Trump, says Jules Witcover.

Sexual harassment isn't the only example of irresponsibility with this Congress, says Cal Thomas.

Sen. Ben Cardin weighed into Alabama’s unpredictable Senate contest Friday with a fundraising solicitation criticizing Republican Roy Moore as an “extremist.”

The GOP establishment has finally surrendered to Donald Trump with the acceptance of an outrageous tax package, says Jules Witcover.

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers approved a short-term spending bill Thursday to avoid a weekend shutdown of the federal government even as they set up a potentially more stubborn battle that will fall just days before their Christmas recess.

The House of Representatives is on the cusp of combining one modest gun safety measure with another that will endanger public health.

While a rising chorus of Democratic leaders are calling for Franken's resignation, Maryland's senators have stayed out of the fray.

Congressional lawmakers were scrambling Tuesday to reach agreement on a funding measure to avert a government shutdown at week’s end and address several agenda items — from a children’s health insurance program to immigration — that have stalled for months.

Trump and GOP leadership decide that Roy Moore's teen dating and lies are just fine with them.

Baltimore City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young plans to travel to D.C. Tuesday to meet with members of Congress and legislative staffers during a lobby day to advocate for more gun control.

About 20 people staged a protest/mock town hall across the street from Rep. Andy Harris' Bel Air office Monday afternoon to air their concerns about the federal tax bill.

The Republican tax bill may be great for a lot of red states, but not for Maryland.

A Senate committee has given the General Services Administration an additional two months to come up with a plan for building a new headquarters for the FBI, a massive project that was abruptly halted earlier this year.