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#1 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...
#2 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...
#3 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...
#4 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...
#5 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...
#6 Senate Says Climate Is Causing Insurance ‘Crisis’; Industry Strikes Back
Dec 19 2024 // The U.S. Senate Budget Committee on Wednesday held a hearing to release a study they said confirms climate change is increasing non-renewal rates in multiple states, but the insurance industry clapped back by saying...
#7 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...
#8 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...
#9 Amazon Ignored Its Own Worker Safety Studies, Senate Report Says
Dec 18 2024 // Amazon.com Inc. leaders rejected internal recommendations that the company relax warehouse worker productivity rates to curb injuries, according to a report from a congressional committee. Released Monday by the majority...
#10 New Jersey Democratic Power Broker Norcross Pleads Not Guilty to Racketeering
Jul 11 2024 // The New Jersey Democratic power broker charged with racketeering by the state attorney general pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges he threatened people whose properties he sought to take over and orchestrated tax...
#11 Texas Senate to Pursue Ban on THC Products in 2025
Dec 6 2024 // Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced Wednesday that lawmakers in the state Senate would move to ban all forms of consumable tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, in Texas. Patrick, who presides over the Senate and largely controls the...
#12 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...
#13 Senate Hopeful Pushes Insurance Revamp During California ‘Gouging’
Jul 10 2024 // US Representative Adam Schiff, a California Democrat who’s running for the Senate, is vowing to take another shot at reining in soaring home insurance rates that he says are “gouging” his constituents. To...
#14 Farm Bill Becomes Lightning Rod in Wisconsin Senate Race
Oct 30 2024 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde has repeatedly defended his self-professed lack of knowledge about the U.S. farm bill in the campaign’s closing days, after first saying in a...
#15 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...
#16 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...
#17 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...
#18 Senate Democrats Seek to Reverse Supreme Court Curb on Regulatory Agency Power
Jul 25 2024 // Democratic U.S. senators on Tuesday introduced a bill designed to undo a ruling last month by the U.S. Supreme Court that curtailed the ability of federal agencies to issue regulations addressing issues including the...
#19 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...
#20 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...
