Sen. Rick Bennett said closed-door party caucuses at the State House are increasingly being used to make legislative ...

The Maine Press Association submitted written ... doors violate the principles of transparency. "Private caucus meetings prevent freedom of access, and constituents are left out of the process ...

The Senate's budget framework is at odds with the House's approach, and both chambers ultimately have to be on the same page ...

The more transparency in Maine’s lawmaking ... of meetings covered by the state’s Freedom of Access Act. The last time we wrote about the legislative caucus was in March of last year ...

WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans advanced their version of President Donald Trump's agenda in a marathon session that ran into ...

McCarthy was forced to step down as Speaker in fall 2023 after members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus rebelled when ... and the Bangor Daily News in Maine.

Lawmakers mixed sometimes-NSFW witticisms with dire warnings about the future of democracy as they traded barbs and banter at the Washington Press Club Foundation’s annual Congressional Dinner. “In ...

Nancy Mace and the Freedom Caucus are feeling on any given day ... look like [Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)],” Lawler said. “I’m really here because DOGE locked me out of my office ...