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Federal employees make up anywhere from 3% to 5% of the New Mexican workforce, depending on which government agency you ask.

D.C. officials are pleading with the U.S. Senate to restore the city’s funding levels after the House passed a spending bill that would cut about $1 billion from the District’s budget.

The plan, which cleared a two-thirds majority in the Maine House, faltered amid Republican opposition in the Senate.

Ohio lawmakers are debating on spending $600 million to help finance a new stadium for the Browns after Republican leadership called the same amount of money "unsustainable" for public education.