All the headlines from our Politics Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 7 2007 // Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., is the incoming chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, which has jurisdiction over flood and terrorism insurance, as well as over regulation of insurance, credit...
Jan 4 2007 // Democrat Alex Sink broke the Republican hold on the state’s executive branch Tuesday when she was sworn in as Florida’ chief financial officer.Sink, a former banking executive, and newly elected Attorney...
Dec 11 2006 // U.S. Rep. William Jefferson of Louisiana easily defeated his fellow Democratic opponent in a runoff election Dec. 10, despite an ongoing federal bribery investigation.In complete but unofficial returns, Jefferson,...
Nov 30 2006 // Farm-state senators will make a last-ditch effort this week to pass agricultural disaster assistance, though it’s unlikely it will become law before the new year.North Dakota Sens. Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan, both...
Nov 20 2006 // Did Green Party cost Democrats control of Michigan Senate?One of the main reasons Republicans were swept from power was the Iraq war. Ironically, it may have helped preserve their long-standing lock on the Michigan Senate,...
Nov 20 2006 // The new Congress may be blue on Capitol Hill, but insiders say that’s not necessarily a bad color for the insurance industry.“The more things change, the more they may remain pretty much the same,” said...
Nov 19 2006 // News CurrentsThe new Congress may be blue on Capitol Hill, but insiders say that’s not necessarily a bad color for the insurance industry. “The more things change, the more they may remain pretty much the...
Nov 13 2006 // Did Green Party cost Democrats control of Michigan Senate? One of the main reasons Republicans were swept from power was the Iraq war. Ironically, it may have helped preserve their long-standing lock on the Michigan...
Nov 9 2006 // Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger claimed victory on Tuesday as Kansas voters gave her a second four-year term.The Republican incumbent’s campaign against Rep. Bonnie Sharp, D-Kansas City, was low-key, unlike the...
Nov 9 2006 // Hundreds if not thousands of people in the Denver area waited to vote Tuesday night after polls were officially closed, a miserable end to a day fraught with balky computers and unfamiliar new voting machines handling the...
Nov 9 2006 // The new Congress will alter the insurance agenda on Capitol Hill, but losses for the industry are not a foregone conclusion. That’s the after-the-election take by the National Association of Professional Insurance...
Nov 9 2006 // After Democrats claimed all seven constitutional offices in Arkansas with decisive victories, Gov.-elect Mike Beebe invited Arkansans to put differences behind them and consider what they can do together to move the state...
Nov 8 2006 // The two major parties are no longer locked in parity in state legislatures. Wresting control from the GOP in all the chambers that changed hands outright, the Democrats now control the legislatures in more states than they...
Nov 7 2006 // A new statewide poll indicates Alabama Gov. Bob Riley is headed to an easy re-election victory over Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley and puts Republican candidates ahead in the races for lieutenant governor, attorney general and...
Nov 6 2006 // Libertarian S.B.A. Zaitoon has jumped into the special election for a Baton Rouge, La., state Senate seat.Zaitoon, fresh off an unsuccessful bid for state insurance commissioner, qualified Oct. 27 and joined physician Bill...
Nov 6 2006 // Insurance-related contributors to this year’s midterm Congres-sional races are favoring Repub-licans 2-to-1 over Democrats while the overall total given by insurance interests appears down from two years...
Nov 5 2006 // Libertarian S.B.A. Zaitoon has jumped into the special election for a Baton Rouge, La., state Senate seat.Zaitoon, fresh off an unsuccessful bid for state insurance commissioner, qualified Oct. 27 and joined physician Bill...
Oct 30 2006 // Democratic and Republican state Senate leaders in Oklahoma may follow the lead of their counterparts in other states and share power if the chamber has a tie in membership after the Nov. 7 general election, officials...
Oct 25 2006 // Florida Republicans who last month held slight leads over Democratic challengers are now in close races for two open Cabinet seats, a new poll shows.In the attorney general race, Republican Bill McCollum was favored by 42...
Oct 25 2006 // Insurance-related contributors to this year’s midterm Congressional races are favoring Republicans 2-to-1 over Democrats while the overall total given by insurance interests appears down from two years ago.According...