In recent years it’s taken the House much longer — as much as five weeks — to organize.
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Alaska Legislature convenes with deadlock reigning in the House and the Senate jumping ahead
The House will reconvene at 10 a.m. Wednesday, with a possible vote for speaker.
Days before legislative session starts, Alaska House is again without a coalition
This is the third time in a row in which the House has begun the session without leadership.
Alaska’s former House speaker Edgmon on current disorganization: ‘We just don’t know’
Alaska’s 33rd legislative session convenes next week. And while the state Senate is organized, the House is not.
How about an Alaska-style coalition to end the impasse at the US House? Nice idea, Peltola says
Peltola said she’s received tons of text messages from Alaskans proposing to end the speaker stalemate the way Juneau often does.
Alaska legislators say abortion-related legislation is unlikely to advance in the Capitol this year
A bipartisan supermajority in the Senate, plus close margins in the House, means controversial bills on social issues will face major obstacles.
Peltola sees House speaker impasse as a symptom of bigger divisions
Nothing can happen in the House until the members elect a speaker.
Alaska lawmaker can’t block public from social accounts based on their views, judge rules
An Anchorage judge says Sen. Reinbold acted as an official maintaining a ‘limited’ public forum when she blocked an Eagle River woman, but doesn’t resolve why.
How Alaska’s congressional delegation voted on the same-sex marriage and railroad bills, and why
Last week was busy in Congress, with Alaska’s congressional delegation splitting and uniting in surprising ways.
Alaska Rep. Eastman, contending with Red Scare-era disloyalty clause, advances toward trial
The roots of Alaska’s disloyalty clause come from a Hawaiian dockworkers’ strike in the 1940s.