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By JAMES MacPHERSONApril 27, 2021 GMT BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s attorney general said Tuesday that a bill that would give lawmakers more oversight over how federal funding is spent between legislation sessions might not stand up to a court challenge. Leaders of the Republican-led Legislature signaled that they would try to override Gov. Doug Burgum’s veto of the bill, which Burgum said “clearly violates the separation of powers doctrine” and would be unconstitutional. Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem told The Associated Press that the Republican governor was “well withi...

1:32 The Legislature has approved a measure designed to give lawmakers more say over how federal money, such as the COVID-19 relief money, is spent. Under current law, the state’s Emergency Commission – consisting of the Governor, the Secretary of State, the majority leaders of both the House and Senate, and each chamber’s Appropriations Committee chairs – would decide how the money is spent. That recommendation goes to the Legislature’s Budget Section, which can only accept or reject the Commission’s recommendations without change. The new measure would limit that procedure, so i...

Org. Setting and Reporting This position is located in the Finance and Budget Section, Executive Office, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in New York. OCHA is part of the United Nations Secretariat responsible for bringing together humanitarian actors to ensure a coherent response to emergencies. OCHA also ensures there is a framework within which each actor can contribute to the overall response efforts. OCHA's mission is to mobilize and coordinate effective and principled humanitarian action in partnership with national and international actors in order to alleviat...

The Legislature is taking its midsession break. Lawmakers will be back in session with committee hearings on Wednesday morning, March 3. Why does this recess happen now? Members of the House and Senate go on break after they’ve finished working on bills that were introduced in their own chamber. In other words, House members have finished voting on all of the bills that were introduced in the House, and senators have voted on every one of the Senate’s bills. When the Legislature resumes, the Senate will be working on the bills that survived scrutiny in the House, and House members w...

From early on in this pandemic, it was clear this was going to be more of a marathon than a sprint.