as in capitol
the building in which a state legislature meets a field trip to the statehouse to see the legislature in session

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Recent Examples of statehouse Pennsylvania upset ignites Dems optimism Part of what has cheered Democrats up as of late were a pair of March victories in two Pennsylvania state legislative races that restored their majority in the statehouse and delivered a major upset in a district Trump won comfortably last fall. Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2025 Florida’s shrinking statehouse press corps moved on. Mary Ellen Klas, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2025 While legislative leaders in Illinois would like to move from a flat to progressive income tax system, their counterparts in the South Carolina statehouse are interested in doing the opposite. Patrick Gleason, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025 Reform groups lined up at the statehouse, pressing Republican lawmakers to return the standards that schools and parents used last year. Benjamin Yount | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for statehouse

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“Statehouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/statehouse. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.

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