House Speaker Rusty Bowers filed a statement of interest today to run for a seat in the Arizona Senate.  Bowers, R-Mesa, is term limited and cannot seek re-election to the Arizona House of Representatives. He filed to run for Senate ...

In a recent interview with the Arizona Capitol Times, House Speaker Rusty Bowers, R-Mesa, discussed the highlights and disappointments of the 2021 session.

Newly elected House Speaker Rusty Bowers, R-Mesa, inherits a chamber where he can't afford to alienate a single Republican.

Arizona House Speaker J.D. Mesnard said Tuesday he is committed to following through on his promise to revamp how his chamber negotiates a state budget with the Senate and the governor's office.

When Javan “J.D.” Mesnard first showed up at the Capitol in 2002, he was a messy-haired 21-year-old music composition major who had quit his job as a pizza delivery driver.

The longtime sheriff of metropolitan Phoenix fired up the crowd at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Thursday by reminding them of Donald Trump's pledge to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Arizona House Republicans who won their elections met this afternoon to select a new leadership team, and chose Republican Rep. David Gowan of Sierra Vista for speaker of the House.

As I watched various committee debates on education issues unfold over this last session, the former 5th grade teacher in me couldn’t help but think about how some of those very same communications and collaboration life skills we teach to Arizona 10-year-olds might just benefit everyone.

To curtail the inappropriate influence of money in politics, Arizona law prohibits lobbyists from contributing to lawmakers’ campaign committees while the Legislature is in session.

The midterm congressional elections are still a year off, but the Republican Party started ratcheting up its campaign this week against three freshman Arizona Democrats it has targeted in the race.