Most Popular Politics Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Politics Topic Page over the last year.
#1 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...
#2 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...
#3 Trump Administration Seen as Likely to Dismantle ESG Rules
Nov 8 2024 // President-elect Donald Trump will likely move to dismantle ESG-related regulations in the US when he takes office in January. That would mean blocking Securities and Exchange Commission rules for corporate and fund...
#4 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...
#5 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...
#6 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...
#7 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...
#8 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...
#9 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...
#10 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...
#11 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...
#12 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...
#13 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...
#14 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...
#15 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...
#16 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...
#17 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...
#18 Senate Committee Reveals Climate Change Danger to Financial System
Dec 20 2024 // A Senate Budget Committee report shows how dangerous climate change is to the nation’s financial system as well as how bad it could be for homeowners seeking affordable insurance. A Senate Budget Committee Staff...
#19 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...
#20 With 13 New Members, SC Senate Could Tackle Joint Liability, Liquor Insurance
Dec 11 2024 // COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — With the largest number of newly elected members at least since World War II, Republican South Carolina Senate leaders are thinking about tackling some issues like tax reform and liquor liability...
