The Rhode Island General Assembly meets for a little over six months a year, and most of the activity happens in the final ...

The legislative branch doesn't just propose bills and craft federal law though, it is also key to checking the power of the judicial and executive branches.

Here is your guide to the three branches of the U.S. government, complete with a full breakdown of the responsibilities assigned to the executive, judicial and legislative sectors. Americans weigh ...

House Republicans’ proposal to cut nearly half of the Government Accountability Office’s budget could result in Congress ...

“DOGE’s attempted intrusion into an independent, nonpartisan legislative branch agency is a direct assault on our nation’s sacred separation of powers,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va ...

On one side of the spectrum is Rhode Island’s centralized structure, where legislative leaders have significant power, compared with New Hampshire’s decentralized model on the opposite end.

A bill in Kansas aims to boost legislative and judicial cybersecurity while also making executive branch IT more cohesive. This is due in part to a 2023 cyber attack.

At the national level, they created three different branches of government to administer three different types of power. The legislative branch made the laws through a Congress of two houses, the ...

The GAO is part of the legislative branch and not subject to DOGE's request. Politics. DOGE tried assigning a team to the Government Accountability Office. It refused. May 16, 2025 3:30 PM ET. By .

The Supreme Court will soon decide a case that strikes at the very core of America's governmental structure: should the three branches—executive, legislative, and judicial—have equal powers ...

Legislative watchdog rebuffs DOGE efforts to install on-site team “DOGE’s attempted intrusion into an independent, nonpartisan legislative branch agency is a direct assault on our nation’s ...