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Trump Administration Targets Connecticut Town Over Transgender Athlete Policies
Jun 6 2025 // A school system in Connecticut that’s at the center of an ongoing legal fight over allowing transgender student athletes to participate in competitive girls’ sports is being investigated by the Trump...
Trump Administration May Rescind $4B for California High-Speed Rail Project
Jun 5 2025 // The Trump administration said Wednesday there is no viable path forward for California’s High-Speed Rail project and warned it may rescind $4 billion in government funding in the coming weeks. The U.S. Transportation...
State Farm VP Apologizes to Homeowner, Allstate Exec Gets Grilled at Senate Hearing
Jun 2 2025 // It’s not just some Florida-domiciled insurance carriers that have allegedly altered field adjusters’ reports or low-balled property damage estimates in recent years. It’s also major national insurers,...
Trump Administration Is Rolling Out a New Way to Shrink FEMA’s Role
May 30 2025 // When a series of deadly storms and tornadoes pummeled Arkansas in mid-March, downing power lines and tearing up homes, Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders asked the federal government for money to not only help repair the...
California, 10 Other States Launch Clean Cars Coalition Following Senate Vote
May 23 2025 // California is joining an 11-state coalition to advance clean vehicles in response to a vote by the U.S. Senate to revoke California’s authority to set its own clean air standards. The Affordable Clean Cars Coalition...
Senate Votes to Block California’s Rule to Ban Sale of New Gas-Powered Cars by 2035
May 22 2025 // The Senate voted on Thursday to block California’s first-in-the nation rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035, moving to kill the country’s most aggressive effort to transition toward electric...
Senate Will Try to Block California Vehicle Standards to Phase Out Gas-Powered Cars
May 20 2025 // The U.S. Senate will move this week to block California from enforcing a series of vehicle emissions standards that are tougher than the federal government’s, including first-in-the-nation rules phasing out the sale...
Stablecoin Bill Advances in US Senate in Big Win for Crypto
May 20 2025 // Stablecoin legislation overcame a procedural blockade in the US Senate, marking a major victory for the crypto industry after a group of Democrats dropped their opposition Monday. The industry-backed regulatory bill is now...
State Farm VP Apologizes to Homeowner While Allstate Gets Grilled at Senate Hearing
May 15 2025 // It’s not just a few Florida-domiciled insurance carriers that have allegedly altered field adjusters’ reports or low-balled damage estimates in recent years. It’s also major national insurers, according...
State AI Regulation Ban Tucked Into Republican Tax, Fiscal Bill
May 14 2025 // A powerful House committee has tucked language preventing states from regulating artificial intelligence into President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending bill, a move that would benefit many of the US’s...
Georgia Insurance Commissioner King Joins Race for Ossoff’s US Senate Seat
May 13 2025 // Inflammatory Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene won’t, but Georgia Insurance Commissioner John King will run for the U.S. Senate now held by Democrat John Ossoff. King, a former police chief in Georgia, was...
Wisconsin Republicans Kill Cannabis Legalization And Tax Increases for Millionaires
May 13 2025 // Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature voted to kill most of the top spending priorities of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, including legalizing marijuana, even as both sides negotiate a tax cut. The...
White House Dismisses Democrats on Consumer Product Safety Commission
May 12 2025 // The Trump administration dismissed three Democrats on the five-member Consumer Product Safety Commission, a White House official confirmed Friday. The three Democratic commissioners said the firings were illegal. The CPSC...
APCIA, IBHS Testify Before Senate Committee on Loss Mitigation
May 2 2025 // During a Senate committee hearing focusing on insurance and loss mitigation efforts, industry representatives said that all levels of government play a role. “Where government regulation and infrastructure allow...
Trump Administration Sues Michigan to Halt State’s Fossil Fuel Lawsuit Plan
May 1 2025 // The Trump administration sued Michigan and Hawaii seeking to block the states from suing oil companies for damage caused by climate change, less than two months after the US Supreme Court rebuffed a Republican bid to...
Attorney Fee Amendment Shot Down by Florida Senate; Condo Relief Bill Passes
May 1 2025 // Florida’s Senate late Wednesday refused to go along with a prevailing-party attorney-fee amendment to a phosphate mine bill, likely leaving it dead for 2025 as the legislative session nears the end. The amendment to...
Appeals Court Blocks Trump From Removing Democrats From Labor Boards
Apr 7 2025 // A federal appeals court blocked U.S. President Donald Trump from removing Democratic members from two federal labor boards on Monday, setting aside its earlier ruling. The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
US House Democrats Open Investigation Into Kennedy Bird Flu Response
Apr 2 2025 // Democrats on the U.S. House of Representatives oversight committee opened an investigation on Tuesday into health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s handling of the federal response to bird flu, according to a letter...
Federal Judge Orders Halt to Trump Administration Efforts to Dismantle CFPB
Apr 1 2025 // A U.S. judge has blocked the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from pursuing efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the latest rebuke from the courts in...
Florida Senate Panel Wants More Rate Comparison, Cost, Profit Info on OIR Website
Mar 26 2025 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation provides a rate comparison tool on its website for homeowners’ and auto insurance, allowing consumers to view estimated premiums for limited types of properties and...
