AZ House Speaker Steve Montenegro Archives

Montenegro, Lake Decry Hobbs’s ‘Blackmail’ over Missing $122M

April 18, 2025 5:44 pmApril 25, 2025 7:04 am

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has intensified a political standoff by announcing she will veto all new legislation not on her desk until the Republican-controlled Legislature agrees to a bipartisan funding solution for the state’s Division of Developmental Disabilities (DDD). The...

Hobbs Shunned Gress-Chaired Ad Hoc Oversight Committee

April 11, 2025 4:32 pmApril 21, 2025 6:29 pm

Fourteen minutes before a scheduled ad hoc committee meeting on executive budget mismanagement on April 3, 2025, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs announced that her agencies were prohibited from participating. The committee, consisting of three Democrats and six Republicans, was formed...

Kolodin Explains Bill Assignments: ‘Appropriations, Expertise, or a Quiet Death’

March 26, 2025 3:47 pmApril 17, 2025 2:34 pm

During the 2025 legislative session, several high-profile bills received dual-committee assignments instead of the usual process of a single-committee approval ahead of a review by the rules committee. Critics claimed Speaker Montenegro intentionally sent these bills to multiple committees for...

Week in Review: For the Week of March 16, 2025

March 22, 2025 2:25 pmMarch 28, 2025 8:30 am

High Profile, Controversial Rallies Hit Arizona Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez held a rally at Arizona State University in Tempe, criticizing figures like former President Donald Trump and Elon Musk for policies they argue harm the working and...

Montenegro Mulls Funding Redirect for Second Child-Related Agency

March 18, 2025 4:54 pmMarch 25, 2025 5:58 pm

Flanked by members of the Arizona House, minus Freedom Caucus members, Arizona House Speaker Steve Montenegro exposed what he described as another financial crisis created by Governor Katie Hobbs. In a news conference on March 17, 2025, Montenegro reported that...

Montenegro Labels Hobbs Budget ‘Fundamentally Flawed’

January 22, 2025 3:40 pmJanuary 27, 2025 9:52 am

Arizona’s financial landscape has become a focal point of debate between Governor Katie Hobbs and Republican legislators, particularly concerning the state’s budget projections and spending priorities. Marge Zylla, the Governor’s legislative and fiscal affairs director, recently presented Governor Hobbs’ budget...

Hobbs Sparks Backlash over State of the State Address

January 15, 2025 1:31 pmJanuary 23, 2025 12:34 pm

Governor Katie Hobbs delivered her third State of the State address, outlining her 2025 priorities under what she calls the “Arizona Promise,” which includes childcare, affordable housing, security, reproductive freedom, and water conservation. Hobbs reaffirmed her commitment to gutting the Empowerment Scholarship...