California lawmakers pass bill banning legacy and donor college admissions

If signed by Gov. Newsom, the law would make California the latest state in a growing movement to make legacy admissions illegal.

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Kansas lawmakers are allowing a 93% pay raise for themselves to take effect next year

Kansas is set to nearly double state legislators’ pay at the start of next year
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California lawmakers may stop tying K-12 schools’ funding to daily attendance

A Los Angeles area legislator is proposing to change the way California K-12 schools are funded, focusing on enrollment rather than student attendance.

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White House invites GOP lawmakers in Pennsylvania to lunch

Republican state senators in Pennsylvania were invited to a White House lunch as President Donald Trump baselessly maintains Democrats stole the battleground state from him
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Column: Forget a special legislative session. California lawmakers first need to get their act together

The people’s representatives couldn’t get their act together amid internal turmoil to agree on a stripped-down $ 500-million wildfire appropriation before they were forced by law to adjourn the two-year legislative session at midnight Aug. 31.

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U.S. lawmakers push Mylan, Teva over drug pricing probe: statement

The head of the U.S. House of Representative’s oversight panel on Wednesday called on three drugmakers to turn over documents as part of an ongoing congressional review over generic drug price increases and accused the companies of “apparent efforts to stonewall” the probe.


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As long as Trump is president, California lawmakers will keep building a wall against his policies

California state legislators ended their annual session the way they began it — building a wall to protect undocumented immigrants from President Trump.

Not an iron wall, as Trump promised to erect along the U.S.-Mexico border, but a legal barrier to prevent local police and sheriffs from teaming…

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Trump reaches out to lawmakers on healthcare as another says ‘no’

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump made calls to fellow Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Friday to mobilize support for their party’s healthcare overhaul while acknowledging the legislation is on a “very, very narrow path” to passage.


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Trump will pitch his agenda to lawmakers in major speech tonight

Trump will pitch his agenda to lawmakers in major speech tonight Feb. 28, 2017, 5:02 a.m. A look at President Trump’s administration and the rest of Washington: Trump will demand that Congress boost defense spending The real goal of Trump’s executive orders: Reduce the number of immigrants What…
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Families, lawmakers demand transparency for $89,000 drug

A newly US-approved drug with an $ 89,000-a-year price tag has been put on hold, owing to the latest uproar from advocates and lawmakers over high drug prices.


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