Voters talk with precinct officials at Godwin Heights High School in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. It took a state Supreme Court ruling to get two ...

Members of Congress are wrestling with the 97 bipartisan recommendations put forward last year by the newly reestablished Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress. Among them are proposals to ...

Lawmaking does not just mean passing bills and creating new laws. It also means oversight and accountability, as well as ...

Unless the upcoming lame-duck session is remarkably productive, the current Congress may be a relative bust. It’s on track to produce fewer laws than the previous Congress, a Roll Call analysis shows.

Committee chairs have long been considered power brokers for lawmaking. But in the recently completed 116th Congress, their lawmaking effectiveness continued a downward slide. How do you measure ...

BISMARCK — This January, 141 people elected to represent all corners of North Dakota will assemble to decide how the state will be governed and financed — a process made for the public that should ...

Craig Volden co-directs the Center for Effective Lawmaking, which receives funding from the Democracy Fund and from the U.S. Democracy Program at the Hewlett Foundation. Alan Wiseman is the Chair of ...

Legislative bodies of the three tiers of government need to overcome multiple challenges to make their legislation process participatory and transparent. Right to information activists say ensuring ...

WE’LL BRING YOU THE LATEST AS IT COMES IN. NOW TO THE EFFORT TO BAN THE USE OF NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS IN CALIFORNIA’S LAWMAKING PROCESS. IT IS DEAD FOR THE YEAR. NDAS ARE LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENTS ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Nepal, Aug. 7 -- The parliamentary probe panel formed to investigate the controversial passage of the tampered Federal Civil Service Bill 2024 from the House of Representatives (HoR) submitted its ...