Oct 27, 2023
Congressman Kelly Armstrong hasn't been able to get back home to North Dakota for nearly two months thanks to chaos in Washington D.C. Chaos that included a pitched battle within the Republican caucus over who the Speaker of the House would be.
Now that the House has a Speaker again, Armstrong is home in North Dakota...
Oct 25, 2023
North Dakota lawmakers are wrapping up their work at a special session that was convened thanks to the state Supreme Court striking down a catch-all budget bill that violated the state constitution.
Some surprise topics came up during the closing hours, including an effort to kill a major audit review of State Auditor...
Oct 18, 2023
Next week North Dakota's lawmakers will convene in a special session, and it's hard to know what's going to happen.
Gov. Doug Burgum called lawmakers into special session with an executive order asking that they limit themselves to five days, but lawmakers aren't obliged to follow that order. Once they're in session,...
Oct 13, 2023
You wouldn't normally expect to use an interview with a United States Senator to talk about what's going on in the House of Representatives, but that's what we did on today's episode of Plain Talk.
Even though Sen. Kevin Cramer is a former member of the House, and knows a thing or two about how that chamber operates, he...
Oct 11, 2023
"My opinion is there will be no delayed bills introduced," House Majority Leader Mike Lefor, a Dickinson Republican, said of the upcoming legislative session on this episode of Plain Talk.
"Get in and get out," he added.
The special session is necessitated by a state Supreme Court ruling which found that the...