statehouse

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Gabbard was a Democrat and remained so for two decades, as she cycled from the statehouse to Honolulu’s City Council to the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

Gustafson said that she completed her remarks before protesters who had gathered outside the statehouse during the hourslong hearing.

From Salon • Nov. 17, 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