All the headlines from our Politics Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 6 2018 // Republicans are considering a fix to a provision in their new tax law that they acknowledge could inadvertently penalize victims of sexual harassment in the workplace.But congressional gridlock before midterm elections in...
Jun 4 2018 // Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has vetoed a handful of GOP-backed bills related to health care. Northam vetoed a bill that would have allowed all groups like the Virginia Chamber of Commerce to pool their members together in...
May 31 2018 // A California bill to establish a state charter bank for cannabis businesses has passed the Senate Floor.Senate Bill 930, authored by state Sen. Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, would enable banks to issue checks to cannabis...
May 25 2018 // Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has vetoed a handful of GOP-backed bills related to health care. Northam vetoed a bill that would have allowed all groups like the Virginia Chamber of Commerce to pool their members together in...
May 21 2018 // Tom Pratt, an insurance agent who specializes in procuring fine art coverage in a rural Northern California community, has worked in the insurance industry for more than 20 years.By day he is an insurance agent. In his...
May 15 2018 // Farm legislation usually has enough incentives to satisfy everyone across the partisan divide in Congress. Not this year.The Republican version set for a House vote on Friday contains so many unpalatable provisions that...
May 14 2018 // Tom Pratt, an insurance agent who specializes in procuring fine art coverage in a rural Northern California community, has worked in the insurance industry for more than 20 years.By day he is an insurance agent. In his...
Apr 24 2018 // The chair of the Tulsa County Democratic Party has entered the race to become Oklahoma’s next insurance commissioner.Kimberly Fobbs currently is the only Democrat who has filed to run for the insurance...
Apr 19 2018 // The Illinois Senate has approved restrictions on insurance companies writing workers’ compensation policies. The plan that passed 34-21 on April 17 is identical to one Gov. Bruce Rauner vetoed last year.The...
Apr 19 2018 // The U.S. government on Tuesday proposed tightening rules governing the amount of prescription opioid painkillers that drugmakers can manufacture in a given year, in hopes of reining in the deadly opioid epidemic.The Drug...
Apr 13 2018 // Republicans on the U.S. House Agriculture Committee on Thursday called for changes to the government’s food assistance program for the poor, in a package of long-awaited proposals for the next U.S. Farm Bill that...
Apr 10 2018 // A lawsuit against U.S. Senate appointee Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi has been permanently dismissed.The Daily Leader reports Mississippi Circuit Judge David Strong dismissed the case with prejudice April 3. That means...
Mar 29 2018 // People who file civil lawsuits in Louisiana when someone dies from hazing could be in line for higher penalty payments, under a bill that won easy passage from the state Senate. Senators voted 28-3 Wednesday for Senate...
Mar 26 2018 // Kentucky lawmakers are closing in on making the biggest changes to the workers’ compensation system in decades after the Senate passed the measure on Thursday.The legislation – backed by business groups but opposed...
Mar 18 2018 // The National Labor Relations Board is ignoring its own guidelines and rushing to settle a major workplace action involving McDonald’s Corp., lawyers for employees involved in the litigation alleged. If the workers...
Mar 15 2018 // Five Democratic U.S. senators on Wednesday urged changes to a stalled landmark bill aimed at speeding the deployment and testing of self-driving cars.“We are concerned that the bill indefinitely preempts state and...
Mar 8 2018 // Wall Street banks don’t have much to celebrate in what’s probably the final version of a bill easing financial rules that is headed for a U.S. Senate vote.Late Wednesday, Senate Banking Chairman Mike Crapo, an...
Mar 5 2018 // The U.S. Justice Department has asked a federal judge overseeing hundreds of lawsuits against opioid manufacturers and distributors to give it 30 days to decide whether to participate in the litigation.The department made...
Feb 23 2018 // Witnesses told investigators that a garbage truck struck by a train carrying Republican congressmen through rural Virginia entered the railroad crossing after the safety gates had come down, the National Transportation...
Feb 21 2018 // Oklahoma state Sen. Bill Brown will serve as the chair of the Senate’s Pensions, Retirement and Insurance Committee for the 2018 legislative session.Other members of the committee are Vice Chair Marty Quinn, Sen....