All the headlines from our Politics Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
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...