All the headlines from our Politics Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 15 2014 // Democrats see New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional District as one of their best chances to pick up a House seat in November’s general election in a race full of early spending on accusatory ads, and in which the...
Sep 9 2014 // Representative Jeb Hensarling, a Texas Republican who has been a key opponent of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, now supports a short-term extension of the bank’s mandate, opening the door to a temporary reprieve for...
Sep 4 2014 // House Republican leaders are considering a short-term extension of the 80-year-old U.S. Export-Import Bank that is set to expire this month, a party aide said.An extension of several months is being discussed, said the...
Aug 26 2014 // Tennessee’s Republican state senator who challenged scandal-plagued U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais conceded his 38-vote primary loss to the incumbent on Monday, saying he decided not to challenge the results.Jim Tracy...
Aug 25 2014 // Seeking to quell a politically charged controversy, the Obama administration announced new measures Friday to allow religious nonprofits and some companies to opt out of paying for birth control for female employees while...
Aug 12 2014 // Reauthorization of the U.S. Export-Import Bank was left off a list of items that the No. 2 Republican in the House of Representatives expects his party to take up in September, raising new questions about the bank’s...
Aug 7 2014 // An accountant and industry executive has won the Republican nomination for Kansas insurance commissioner.Ken Selzer, of Leawood, emerged from a field of five candidates in the Aug. 5 primary. His nearest rival was Eudora...
Aug 6 2014 // The U.S. Treasury Department is examining unilateral actions to curb corporate inversions, reversing its position that only Congress has the authority to stop or slow the deals.About three weeks after Secretary Jacob J....
Aug 4 2014 // Five Republicans are running for Kansas insurance commissioner and seeking to replace retiring three-term GOP Commissioner Sandy Praeger.The GOP field in the Aug. 5 primary includes state Sen. Clark Shultz, of Lindsborg....
Jul 31 2014 // In the Republican-heavy Southeast, critics said this week that a plan by President Barack Obama’s administration to cut pollution would raise electricity prices, result in job losses and may not significantly curtail...
Jul 31 2014 // The government has failed to inspect virtually all of the chemical facilities that it considers to be at a higher risk for a terror attack and has underestimated the threat to densely populated cities, congressional...
Jul 30 2014 // A U.S. Senate committee today conducted a hearing titled “The Flood Insurance Claims Process in Communities After Sandy: Lessons Learned and Potential Improvements,” where lawmakers had a chance to listen to...
Jul 27 2014 // The North Carolina House last week rejected a bill requiring insurance for moped drivers.The House voted 51-54 against concurring on a Senate version of a bill that would have required insurance and registration with the...
Jul 23 2014 // Former Dollar General Corp. Chief Executive Officer David Perdue has won the primary for Georgia’s Republican U.S. Senate nomination, beating insurance agent and current Congressman Jack Kingston in a close...
Jul 17 2014 // In a 93-4 vote, the Senate today passed the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2014 (S. 2244 ) that extends the federal reinsurance program for seven years.In addition to extending the Terrorism Risk...
Jul 17 2014 // The North Carolina Senate has passed a bill which requires moped drivers to register their vehicles with the state and carry insurance. The vote was 36-11.It remains to seen if the House will go along. The House measure...
Jul 15 2014 // Georgia Republican Senate candidates Jack Kingston and David Perdue sharpened their attacks on each other during a heated debate last Sunday with just over a week to go before their runoff election.Perdue, the former CEO...
Jul 9 2014 // The Senate is advancing legislation that would let companies and the U.S. government share information about hacking threats, even as privacy advocates say the plan could enable the National Security Agency to sweep up...
Jun 30 2014 // The Massachusetts state Senate on June 26 passed legislation filed by the state’s attorney general, Martha Coakley, and state House Speaker Robert DeLeo aimed at softening the impact of flood insurance rate...
Jun 24 2014 // The New Jersey Senate has failed in its effort to override Gov. Chris Christie’s conditional veto of the Superstorm Sandy “Bill of Rights” legislation.New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney pushed...