Today, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) called for needed process improvements and transparency from the State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs, which handles the distribution of passports. Ricketts also advocated for more options close to Nebraska.
Last-minute tweaks to a potential compromise amendment implementing voter ID in Nebraska ran up against a deadline for scheduling floor debate that forced members of the Legislature’s Government and Military Affairs Committee to take sides.
Governor Jim Pillen, Secretary of State Bob Evnen and members of the Nebraska Legislature’s Appropriations Committee met Tuesday with six members of the Parliament of Kenya. The Kenyan lawmakers are visiting Nebraska to establish public and private partnerships and learn from Nebraska lawmakers.
The session-long fight in some Nebraska lawmakers’ efforts to further restrict abortion and restrict some gender-affirming care for minors progressed forward Tuesday evening, with the majority of state senators voting in favor of State Senator Ben Hansen’s amendment and the bill itself.
The topic of election security has made it all the way to lawmakers in Washington D.C. who worry that the spread of misinformation is starting to take cause problems for polling workers voting places and those overseeing elections.
The Nebraska Legislature passed the Opportunity Scholarships Act in a 33 to 12 cloture vote and it will now move on to the next steps in the legislative process.
Nebraska could be changing how long senators are in office, if a proposal makes its way through the Legislature and Nebraskans eventually vote to approve it.
Getting rid of the need for conceal carry permits in Nebraska has been attempted before. Nebraska lawmakers have brought that issue to the legislative debate floor once again.
The Nebraska Unicameral adjourned for the day Thursday after a filibuster by Omaha senator Machaela Cavanaugh didn’t allow any of the bills on the agenda to move forward.
A legislative committee advanced controversial bills Wednesday evening to make abortion less accessible and ban minors from obtaining gender-altering procedures.
In the unicameral, LB421 is one senator’s response to public mandates and protocols by requiring local elected officials to approve them -- depriving healthcare officials of that power.
A bill that would create a state regulatory framework for the sale of pet insurance, which covers pet illness and accidents, advances from general file.
The Unicameral's Education Committee started another week of the legislative session hearing testimony on another controversial transgender bill, this one dealing with youth sports.
President Joe Biden delivered his second State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night. Those who represent Nebraska in Washington had this to say in response.
A line of people wrapped through the halls for most of the day waiting in line to get inside the Health and Human Services hearing room for a chance to speak for or against making the state’s abortion law more strict.
Over the last decade, officials with Project Extra Mile noticed a decrease in the number of underage youth getting caught up in alcohol use. Now, they say the pandemic has reversed that trend.
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