statehouse

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Reeling from a depressed economy, then an explosive greening problem, then hurricanes, they were soon going to the statehouse, desperate for bailout money.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

When the bill was voted on last month, it passed nearly unanimously in the statehouse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Both sides said the legislative process is messy, and that eleventh-hour amendment fights are inevitable in a statehouse where more than 900 bills were passed and close to 800 signed into law last year.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

"People had thought that we would have to move on to a legal strategy and didn't believe we could defeat it directly at the statehouse."

From BBC • Dec. 11, 2025

The story of women’s suffrage ended with Henry Burn’s vote in the Tennessee statehouse in 1920, but it began almost a century earlier with Elizabeth Cady, a young girl in Johnstown, New York, in 1826.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling