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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...
Alabama Senate Advances New Regs on Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Mar 24 2025 // MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Two blocks from the Alabama Statehouse, a black wreath hung on the door of Adams Drugs — a symbol to draw attention to the number of neighborhood pharmacies that have closed, or are in danger of...
Washington Senate Passes Restitution, Credit Scoring Study Bills
Mar 24 2025 // The Washington state Senate passed three bills with insurance implications in mid-March, including a bill giving the insurance commissioner the authority to order restitution to harmed policyholders and a bill studying the...
Texas Senate Passes Ban on Hemp
Mar 21 2025 // The Texas Senate on Wednesday passed a state ban on all forms of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, advancing a priority of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to crack down on the state’s booming consumable hemp market six years after...
Trump Administration Dismisses Democratic FTC Commissioners
Mar 18 2025 // The Trump administration dismissed two Democrats on the US Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, in the latest example of the White House asserting control over US agencies. The commissioners, Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca...
US Labor Board Drops Defense of Law Barring Trump From Firing Democratic Member
Mar 11 2025 // The U.S. agency that enforces the labor rights of private-sector workers is abandoning its defense of a law barring the president from removing appointees at will, as President Donald Trump seeks to oust a Democratic...
Trump Administration Plans to Drop Lawsuit Against Louisiana Petrochemical Plant
Mar 6 2025 // President Donald Trump’s administration plans to drop a federal lawsuit against a synthetic rubber manufacturer accused of worsening cancer risks for residents in a majority-Black community near its Louisiana plant,...
Washington Senate Passes Restitution, Credit Scoring Study Bills
Mar 4 2025 // The Washington state Senate passed three bills with insurance implications on Monday, including a bill giving the insurance commissioner the authority to order restitution to harmed policyholders and a bill studying the...
Newsom Leans on Veteran Republican to Push $40 Billion California Fire Aid
Feb 28 2025 // California Gov. Gavin Newsom is enlisting veteran Republican lawmaker Ken Calvert to help push his $40 billion wildfire aid request through Congress and secure President Donald Trump’s backing for rebuilding...
South Carolina Republicans Launch TV Ads to Salvage Tort Reform Bill
Feb 25 2025 // Georgia lawmakers aren’t the only ones contemplating a major tort-reform bill during the legislative session this year. Next door, South Carolina’s General Assembly is considering Senate Bill 244, which...
Mississippi Senate’s University DEI Ban Goes to Negotiations With House
Feb 13 2025 // The Mississippi Senate passed a bill Thursday that would eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs from the state’s universities, a priority elevated by Republican President Donald Trump. Senate Republicans...
SEC’s Republican-Led Commission Tightens Oversight of Probes, Sources Say
Feb 3 2025 // Lawyers at the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) have been told they need to seek permission from the politically appointed leadership before formally launching probes, two sources briefed on the matter said, in a...
Trump Administration Halts Environmental Litigation, Sidelines Lawyers: Sources
Jan 27 2025 // U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has halted all pending environmental litigation and reassigned four career Justice Department attorneys focused on environmental issues, according to three sources...
Trump Administration Reviewing US Automatic Emergency Braking Rule
Jan 24 2025 // A U.S. auto safety agency said on Friday it is reconsidering a landmark rule from the administration of former President Joe Biden requiring nearly all new cars and trucks by 2029 to have advanced automatic emergency...
US Health Agencies Cancel External Meetings, Travel After Trump Admin Directives
Jan 24 2025 // U.S. health agencies including the CDC this week canceled meetings with external groups, paused some public health publications and told employees to freeze travel after directives from the Department of Health and Human...
Dartmouth Athletes End Unionization Bid Citing Labor Panel Shift to Republicans
Jan 3 2025 // The Dartmouth men’s basketball team on Tuesday dropped its attempt to unionize, abruptly ending a push to become the first college athletes to bargain for a contract in order to avoid a potentially damaging precedent...
New Direction for U.S. Senate Budget Committee
Jan 2 2025 // The U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget is a peculiar entity. The committee was established in 1974 in response to President Richard Nixon “impounding” money allocated by Congress to prevent spending on...
