All the headlines from our Politics Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 19 2014 // The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee is expected to consider a bill next week aimed at encouraging companies to exchange information on hacking attempts and cybersecurity threats with the government, senators said this...
Jun 3 2014 // The U.S. Senate Banking Committee approved a legislation that would extend for seven years the government’s financial backstop of terrorism insurance.The panel approved by a 22-0 vote a bipartisan bill that would...
Jun 3 2014 // U.S. regulators would gain flexibility in how they apply capital standards to insurance companies under a bill approved today by the Senate.The bill, approved by a voice vote, would ease a Dodd-Frank Act provision that...
Jun 2 2014 // A veteran Republican legislator has filed to run for Kansas insurance commissioner and joined an already crowded field of candidates.Sen. Clark Shultz of Lindsborg filed the necessary paperwork on May 30 for a spot on the...
May 27 2014 // Since taking over the legislature in 2011, North Carolina Republicans have trumpeted passing legislation designed to draw back the hand of government hanging over the private sector by getting rid of regulations they...
May 27 2014 // The Oklahoma Senate has killed a proposal backed by Gov. Mary Fallin that would have called for a statewide vote allowing some school districts to increase property taxes to pay for safety upgrades like storm shelters and...
May 27 2014 // The super-political action committee financed by billionaire and former money manager Tom Steyer will try to raise climate change as an election issue in four U.S. Senate races and three gubernatorial contests this year,...
May 23 2014 // The North Carolina Senate on Thursday voted to make it a crime to disclose the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, even as big U.S. oil companies elsewhere consider releasing more information about the...
May 21 2014 // Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, said on Wednesday that he was taking a controversial patent bill off the committee’s agenda for now.The committee had been attempting to reach...
May 16 2014 // The Illinois Senate this week passed legislation requiring app-based ridesharing companies’ primary insurance be in affect the entire time the app is turned on. House Bill 4075 passed 46 to 8 and establishes...
May 16 2014 // The state Senate is set to vote on one of a series of bills aimed at providing more money to politically powerful volunteer fire companies who say their ambulance services are losing money. The bill to be voted on Thursday...
May 15 2014 // Having previously played (and arguably, lost) two prior rounds of legislative “chicken” with the insurance industry, congressional conservatives are making it known that, this time around, they’re quite...
May 12 2014 // Members of New Jersey’s congressional delegation have raised concerns about delays in helping homeowners recover from Superstorm Sandy.The lawmakers met with Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan in...
May 12 2014 // The Massachusetts Senate has unanimously passed legislation to create a “bill of rights” for nannies, caregivers and other domestic workers by establishing labor standards and other worker protections.The bill...
May 12 2014 // A group of Republican lawmakers demanded documents on Friday from U.S. regulators, voicing concerns that decisions about whether to designate large financial companies as systemically risky are unduly influenced by an...
May 7 2014 // New York State senators have voted to require blood-alcohol tests of all drivers following serious accidents.The Senate passed the legislation on Monday. It would mandate that police test the alcohol levels of all drivers...
May 5 2014 // Another bill pushed by Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration to undermine a lawsuit filed by a south Louisiana flood protection board against oil and gas companies is advancing in the state Senate.Senate Bill 469 by...
Apr 30 2014 // U.S. administration officials, private sector executives and privacy advocates are reviewing a draft of a bill that would encourage sharing of cybersecurity data between the government and companies, two key Senators said...
Apr 28 2014 // Homeowners seeking coverage from Citizens Property Insurance could wind up getting policies from out-of-state insurers that are exempt from many of the state regulations other insurers must honor.The Florida Senate on...
Apr 24 2014 // Calling Uber a cutting-edge concept, the Arizona Senate approved a bill that exempts it and other rideshare companies from the same regulations that traditional taxi and limo companies have.The amended bill exempts...