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House Republicans kill attempt to expand insurance program for children
The House voted along party lines Thursday to defeat a Democratic attempt to expand KidsCare eligibility by amending a bill funding the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System.
Borrelli badgers woman over ballots, ridicules Republicans
The Arizona Senate’s Republican whip attempted to pressure a woman who went dumpster-diving for ballots into handing documents she found over to him instead of law enforcement and implied both of them could be killed for trying to expose fraud.
Finchem, Kern claim in lawsuit Fernandez defamed them
A current and a former state House member are suing Rep. Charlene Fernandez, saying the Democrat defamed them when she asked the FBI to investigate their connections to the deadly Jan. 6 riot in the U.S. Capitol.
3 health care reforms that Republicans oppose
I am sorry to report that even with the coronavirus pandemic raging, Arizona’s Legislature failed to hold a single hearing on one of the three urgent bills we championed.
Half of this year’s bills died unceremoniously
By the February 19 deadline to hear bills in committees in their chambers of origin, more than 950 measures were left to die
About face – Republicans back jobless benefit hike
Arizona legislative Republicans who have resisted increasing the state’s second-lowest-in-the-nation unemployment benefits since 2004 are now spearheading bipartisan efforts to hike the rate.
Senate votes to add county supervisors in Maricopa, Pima
Residents of the state's two largest counties could find themselves with more people to call when something goes wrong. But it will cost them.
County election equipment deemed free of tampering
An audit of the Maricopa County voting equipment came up absolutely clean according to county officials.
Senate ethics chairs tosses Finchem’s complaint
It doesn't look like Rep. Mark Finchem will get an investigation into the conduct of Democratic lawmakers who asked the FBI to investigate him.
Finchem’s ethics complaint against Democrats lands in trash
Another ethics complaint -- this time one Rep. Mark Finchem filed against all of the House and Senate Democrats -- will not be going anywhere.
GOP senators take revenge on Boyer
A small group of Senate Republicans on Tuesday sought to punish one of their GOP colleagues for killing their legislation by voting to claw back one of his bills from the House.
House Ethics panel chair rejects calls to investigate Finchem
An Oro Valley Republican who was in Washington D.C. on Jan. 6, the day a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol in an attempt to halt the certification of the electoral vote, will not face an investigation from the Legislature, the chairwoman of the House Ethics Committee said Friday.
