NJ Legislature

A new legislative session officially began Tuesday in Trenton, with both Democratic and Republican lawmakers calling for an end to political gamesmanship.

NJ Republican lawmakers argue Democrats are using Gov. Christie’s travels as a smoke screen to hide their own lack of action.

Jon Bramnick's new bill to allow citizens into Senate sessions is a great idea. You as a NJ resident should have access to your legislators and under Bramnick's plan, you would be able to sit in on the sessions. Would anyone go? They should at least have the ability to if they so choose...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — In New Jersey, legislative elections tend not to be very topsy-turvy. After major candidates for the Assembly were filed on Monday, it looks like maintaining the status quo is a possibility even with all 80 seats up this year.

Democrats and Republicans are closing out 2014 by arguing over which party was more ineffective this year.

Would you like the chance to decide if New Jersey's 120 lawmakers should work full time and be barred from holding any other job while in office?

A new bill by Assemblyman Reed Gusciora is sponsoring a bill that would make NJ legislators full time workers.

The new State Legislature in New Jersey won't be sworn in until Jan. 14 and that means that theoretically more bills can be passed before then, but it also appears many important measures will die. The list includes several bills that could lower property taxes.

Now that election season is past and the Democrats have maintained control of both houses of the Legislature, one of their signature pieces of legislation is the so called DREAM Act, which would allow the children of illegal immigrants brought here at a young age to attend state college at in-state rates...

New Jersey Assemblyman Vinnie Prieto, who will soon take over as the Speaker of the lower house, said Thursday that his first priority is to do something about the state's highest-in-the-nation property taxes.