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by Rev. Mark Creech
Published: Wednesday, July 15th, 2026 @ 5:19 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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The 2023 session of the Synod on Synodality, a general assembly of Bishops, has come to a close, and with it highly anticipated answers to lingering questions as to whether the Catholic Church will ordain women and bless homosexual unions.
Published: Wednesday, November 15th, 2023 @ 10:49 am
By: Daily Wire
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The North Carolina General Assembly has passed the state budget with a vote of 70-40 just after midnight Friday. The chamber held session until approximately 11:45 on Thursday night, adjourning until 12:10 Friday morning for a third and final vote.
Published: Wednesday, September 27th, 2023 @ 4:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A last-minute immigration deal developed by N.C. Sen. Thom Tillis and Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema will not face a vote before Congress adjourns.
Published: Sunday, January 8th, 2023 @ 3:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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With the General Assembly still adjourned, Governor Roy Cooper signed the state budget into law on Monday.
Published: Saturday, July 16th, 2022 @ 10:22 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The General Assembly adjourned last week, concluding the majority of its work for the 2022 legislative short session.
Published: Tuesday, July 12th, 2022 @ 8:49 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The General Assembly has voted to adjourn on Friday, July 1 to a date certain, meaning the 2021-2023 legislative biennium will not formally come to an end on Friday.
Published: Monday, July 4th, 2022 @ 8:38 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The General Assembly was full of activity this week with various committees acting on a myriad of policy legislation as the legislature looks to wind down committee work ahead of adjournment as early as the end of this month.
Published: Wednesday, June 29th, 2022 @ 9:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Members of the General Assembly continued working at a fast pace this week, moving bills quickly through committee and floor votes, in an effort to meet their self-imposed July 1 adjournment deadline.
Published: Tuesday, June 14th, 2022 @ 6:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On March 10th our General Assembly adjourned a session that spanned 14 months, starting in January of 2021.
Published: Monday, March 21st, 2022 @ 9:51 am
By: Tom Campbell
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The N.C. House on Thursday passed a resolution supporting Ukraine before following the Senate’s lead and voting to adjourn its long-running session.
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2022 @ 3:29 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Senate voted Wednesday evening to adjourn the longest long session of the legislature in decades, effective March 10.
Published: Sunday, March 13th, 2022 @ 1:57 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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This week, the General Assembly returned to Raleigh and took up several votes, including an adjournment resolution for the 2021 session.
Published: Friday, March 11th, 2022 @ 9:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Both chambers of the General Assembly passed an adjournment resolution Monday night. Looks like Dec. 30 is the date. It’s been a long legislative session, but a very productive session.
Published: Monday, January 3rd, 2022 @ 8:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Before agreeing to a schedule for adjourning this year’s legislative work, state lawmakers rejected one final push from Democrats to consider Medicaid expansion.
Published: Sunday, December 12th, 2021 @ 12:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Both chambers of the N.C. General Assembly passed an adjournment resolution Monday evening, Nov. 29, coming amid a flurry of other measures making their way through the legislature.
Published: Friday, December 10th, 2021 @ 12:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, adjourned a quick session Tuesday, Oct. 26, but not before promising a busy week ahead.
Published: Sunday, November 21st, 2021 @ 9:35 am
By: Carolina Journal
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About this time in the legislative session - when the session runs interminably long and little is happening - the press corps, lobbyists, legislative staffers and even some lawmakers start a pool to predict how long the session might last before adjournment.
Published: Saturday, October 30th, 2021 @ 2:22 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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In reaction to the legislature adjourning without passing needed funds to continue Medicaid Managed Care implementation, spokesperson Megan Thorpe offered the following comment:
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2019 @ 6:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced that because the NC General Assembly did not take needed action, managed care implementation and open enrollment for NC Medicaid must be suspended.
Published: Wednesday, November 20th, 2019 @ 9:43 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Lawmakers will return to Raleigh Wednesday, Nov. 13, two weeks after adjourning a very, very long session.
Published: Monday, November 18th, 2019 @ 8:22 am
By: Carolina Journal
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After 1,717 bills, nine vetoes and 186 new laws with the prospect of even more over the next few days, the legislature finally adjourned and ended one of the longest legislative sessions in recent history.
Published: Monday, November 18th, 2019 @ 8:11 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The 2019 legislative session won’t end until 2020.
Published: Friday, November 8th, 2019 @ 12:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As the General Assembly scrambles to adjourn, the Senate made another stab at getting money to failing rural hospitals.
Published: Sunday, November 3rd, 2019 @ 1:01 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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I rose early on "Fathers' Day". It was the first day, I had been at the rabbitpatch, since school had adjourned.
Published: Tuesday, June 25th, 2019 @ 1:39 pm
By: Michele Rhem
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The 2017-18 session of the N.C. General Assembly wrapped up Thursday, setting a record by overriding the 22nd and 23rd vetoes of the biennium
Published: Friday, December 28th, 2018 @ 11:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Less than a month after adjourning, the North Carolina General Assembly is being called back in special session
Published: Wednesday, August 1st, 2018 @ 4:18 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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What can lawmakers consider during the 2018 short session? Not everything, because of limits imposed by the long session Adjournment Resolution
Published: Wednesday, June 6th, 2018 @ 10:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state legislature adjourned the 2017 long session June 29. They were done, right? Expected back all afresh and new in spring of 2018 after a long break of doing nothing? Not exactly
Published: Saturday, March 10th, 2018 @ 12:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The House convened briefly Thursday morning to hear veto messages from Gov. Roy Cooper, stood at ease for about a half-hour then unanimously passed by a 76-0 vote a joint Senate resolution to adjourn
Published: Saturday, August 5th, 2017 @ 2:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2017 legislative long session is over. Kind of. In the wee hours of June 30, on the eve of the new fiscal year, the General Assembly adjourned, only to schedule encore sessions in August and September
Published: Sunday, July 30th, 2017 @ 5:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Round one of this year's legislative session is over. But they'll be back
Published: Sunday, July 2nd, 2017 @ 8:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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After more than 90 minutes of debate, including rejected motions to delay the vote until Tuesday and to adjourn the session, the House passed the measure, 70-48
Published: Monday, April 3rd, 2017 @ 8:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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After a day of repeated pauses and extended recesses, just before 8 p.m. Wednesday the General Assembly adjourned its fifth special session of the term without accomplishing its intended purpose: repealing House Bill 2
Published: Friday, December 23rd, 2016 @ 9:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The State Board of Education on Tuesday convened a special meeting to discuss the constitutionality of House Bill 17, but members adjourned without saying what they talked about or revealing their next move, if they have one
Published: Wednesday, December 21st, 2016 @ 4:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. General Assembly's 2016-17 short session is over, the legislature has adjourned, and everyone is back in his or her district - either planning retirement or campaigning
Published: Thursday, July 28th, 2016 @ 10:46 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2015-16 session of the North Carolina General Assembly adjourned just before midnight Friday after a 14-hour legislative day that included moving tributes to retiring lawmakers and senior staff members
Published: Sunday, July 10th, 2016 @ 3:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2016 short session of the General Assembly adjourned leaving plenty of items on the table, and some of them could be revived during the 2017 long session
Published: Saturday, July 9th, 2016 @ 12:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Senate is poised to adjourn on Friday, leaving the House behind to finish up with any unfinished business it chooses to take up
Published: Sunday, July 3rd, 2016 @ 1:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Managed-lane opponents in Mecklenburg and Iredell counties aren't giving up after hearing the news that the Senate will allow the General Assembly to adjourn without taking up House Bill 954, a measure canceling the Interstate 77 high-occupancy or toll lanes project
Published: Wednesday, June 29th, 2016 @ 2:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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