All the headlines from our Politics Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 2 2015 // A measure that would offer financial incentives for auto industry employees to expose safety defects won unanimous backing from a U.S. Senate panel on Thursday.The vote by 13 Republican and Democratic members of the Senate...
Mar 2 2015 // Senior Republican senators said Sunday that Congress would extend Obamacare health insurance subsidies for a “transitional period” should the Supreme Court rule that they aren’t allowed in at least 34...
Feb 27 2015 // The Kentucky House has passed a bill aimed at toughening Kentucky’s DUI laws by requiring convicted drunken drivers to install ignition interlock devices in their vehicles.The bill cleared the House on a 96-0 vote...
Feb 26 2015 // Republicans lawmakers in Florida who once opposed medical pot are now embracing it, motivated by the strong show of support from voters and worried that another constitutional amendment during next year’s...
Feb 20 2015 // The Oregon Senate this week passed a climate change bill that was one of Gov. John Kitzhaber’s top legislative priorities.The approval in a 17-13 vote sent the measure to the state House. The bill would extend...
Feb 11 2015 // The Arkansas Senate passed legislation aimed at clearing the way for districts to use teachers, administrators and other staff as armed guards and eliminating the regulatory panel that had resisted similar efforts.By a...
Feb 9 2015 // Oklahoma Sen. Ron Sharp, R-Shawnee, filed legislation to address the state’s high number of uninsured motorists, especially those with DUI convictions.Senate Bill 260 would require an individual convicted of driving...
Feb 2 2015 // Republican legislators in conservative South Carolina expect to introduce bills next month allowing marijuana to be grown and prescribed for certain illnesses.State Sen. Tom Davis and Rep. Jenny Horne said last Thursday...
Jan 30 2015 // The Arkansas Senate voted to continue the state’s compromise Medicaid expansion another year and create a task force to look at alternatives for the hundreds of thousands of people receiving coverage through the...
Jan 30 2015 // U.S. lawmakers proposed a bill this week that would create a single food safety agency by bringing together the oversight functions of the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture and other...
Jan 28 2015 // Oklahoma Sen. Ron Sharp has filed legislation to address the state’s high number of uninsured motorists especially those with DUI convictions.Senate Bill 260 would require an individual convicted of Driving Under the...
Jan 20 2015 // Nearly a decade after Missouri last limited some civil lawsuit awards, Republican lawmakers are organizing to reinstate caps overturned by the state’s highest court.Businesses can now face lawsuits with unlimited...
Jan 9 2015 // Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy issued a statement praising the Congressional approval for a six-year extension of the federal government’s Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA).“This reauthorization was...
Jan 8 2015 // Today the U.S. Senate followed the House and voted overwhelmingly to reauthorize the federal terrorism reinsurance program that had been allowed to lapse. The vote was 93-4 in favor.On Wednesday, the House of...
Jan 7 2015 // The U.S. House of Representatives voted to reauthorize a government backstop for insurers’ losses from acts of terrorism after lawmakers let the measure expire last month.The legislation, which will extend the...
Jan 7 2015 // Republicans, newly in charge of the U.S. House and Senate, begin their campaign to dismantle Obamacare with a vote this week to ease the law’s requirement that large employers give health insurance to full-time...
Dec 17 2014 // The Senate confirmed Mark Rosekind to lead the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which has come under criticism this year for not responding more quickly to evidence of potentially deadly vehicle...
Dec 17 2014 // A U.S. program that backstops insurance companies’ losses from acts of terrorism is set to end after the Senate didn’t extend it.Efforts to reauthorize the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act for six years fell apart...
Dec 15 2014 // Supporters of renewing the federal terrorism reinsurance program are optimistic that the Senate will follow the House and approve it, however the exact day and time of the Senate vote this week remains unclear.In addition...
Dec 9 2014 // House leaders released a proposed six-year extension of a federal program to insure property against the risk of terrorism, including a Republican proposal to revise a bank regulatory law.The measure will be brought to the...