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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate A lawmaker who has been holding up the work of the Nebraska Legislature for weeks to protest a bill that would ban gender-affirming therapies for minors has paused her persistent filibuster in a deal that will see lawmakers debate the bill next week. Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh, of Omaha, had been staging a filibuster of every single

For the past three weeks, Nebraska State Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh has been on an endless run, speaking on the Senate floor on just about every topic: legislation, fish fries, Girl Scout cookies and the movie "Madagascar." The state's non-partisan, single-chamber legislature is ruled by Republican lawmakers, however, it takes 33 votes to overcome a filibuster, and the legislature has only 32

The Legislature slogged through a filibuster on Thursday en route to a likely initial vote on Friday to move ahead a bill allowing concealed carrying of handguns in Nebraska without permits or safety training toward potential enactment. Sen. Tom Brewer of Gordon, sponsor of LB77, believes he has the 33 votes required to free the bill from the filibuster waged by its opponents and advance it to

The Legislature on Friday broke through a filibuster that had trapped a bill to allow concealed carrying of handguns in Nebraska following eight hours of debate and sent it on to second-stage consideration on a 36-12 vote. Friday's action marked a major victory for Sen. Tom Brewer of Gordon, who championed the gun rights proposal, arguing that the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment bestows a