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Senate Democratic leaders are meeting right now with gay marriage advocates to tell them that they are going to stick with their long-held plan to bring gay marriage to the floor for a vote when there are 32 votes secured to pass the legislation.

Former U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie, left, will become the 55th Governor of New Jersey in January, after defeating incumbent Jon Corzine, right, by more than 100,000 votes.A Democrats lost just one Assembly seat, but the GOP picked up eight Freeholder seats across the state.A Christie is the first Republican to win statewide in twelve ...

In advance of Tuesday's possible vote, advocates on both sides have focused on Republicans because the Democratic majority can only muster 25 to 29 of the 32 votes required for bill adoption in the Senate .

The Wisconsin Legislature officially wrapped up its work until mid-January on early Friday, although lawmakers may return in special or extraordinary session to complete some business.

TRADITIONAL Unionist Voice leader Jim Allister has revealed a strategy to unseat DUP MPs in next year's General Election.

Governing is a matter of priorities. Winnebago County District Attorney Christian Gossett rightly points out the folly of Wisconsin lawmakers putting a ban on motorists talking on cell phones ahead of passing tougher drunken driving laws.

Earlier this year, it seemed almost certain that lawmakers would decide after Election Day whether to make New Jersey the sixth state to allow same-sex marriage.

The state Assembly will take up a bill to strengthen Wisconsin's drunken-driving laws on Thursday.

After polling in the Assembly race, a group aimed at defeating Norby suddenly halts spending.

Bring out the chairs for the State Senate Democrats. It turns out that after all, Senate Democratic leaders do want to hear what their governor has to say about the state budget's dire predicament in a rare joint session of the Assembly and Senate on Monday.

Wisconsin lawmakers are one step closer to stiffening penalties on drunken drivers, but the bill will likely not become law as soon as originally thought.

Eva Sipos' worries her last chance to get married will disappear in about two months.

A sleeping giant awoke Tuesday when the Monmouth County Republican organization scored a dynasty-era margin of victory in the race for a freeholder seat, a sign that the party - after internal turmoil - has revitalized under the leadership of Joseph W. Oxley.

Gov. David Paterson , D-N.Y., tapes a town hall meeting with WNET public television correspondent Rafael P. Roman at the New York University School of Law on Wednesday.

The rules changed overnight in the Statehouse. Republicans gained only one Assembly seat in Tuesday's election, so Democrats still control both the State Senate and State Assembly.

Republicans in Hunterdon here and across the state rejoiced at Chris Christie's victory for governor Tuesday, with Hunterdon giving Christie his biggest percentage victory of all 21 counties.

A year before the 2010 November election, Fond du Lac's City Council president is announcing his bid for the 52nd District Assembly seat.

If you've got a credit card, you've likely been zinged already. Higher interest rate? Yep.

The four best candidates in the 6th Legislative District race are the ones running for Assembly.

In two terms in the Assembly and perhaps more so since he relinquished the mayor's chair in Washington Township this year 4th District Democrat Paul Moriarty has generally been on the right side of pocketbook and consumer issues.