statehouse

Example Sentences

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The legislation is likely to be a priority in the statehouse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

For statehouse denizens in Concord, the question of pay turns on competing views about the makeup of the legislative body and the virtues of volunteer lawmakers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

As we gear up for the mega-election here in Michigan — the governorship, the secretary of state, every statehouse seat, an open U.S.

From Salon • Jan. 5, 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