statehouse

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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

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

When advocates speak out at the statehouse next year, Arnold will be among them.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2025

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