The House gave initial approval to a proposed amendment Monday to revamp the way Missouri picks judges for its highest courts. The measure by Rep. Stanley Cox, R-Sedalia, would change the makeup of the Appellate Judicial Commission, require Senate confirmation of the governor's appointees, make more of the...
The House gave initial approval to a proposed amendment Monday to revamp the way Missouri picks judges for its highest courts. The measure by Rep. Stanley Cox, R-Sedalia, would change the makeup of the Appellate Judicial Commission, require Senate confirmation of the governor's appointees, make more of the...
Byline: SALLY ROBERTS SACRAMENTO-California state lawmakers will hold a hearing this week to explore possible financial improprieties at the State Compensation Insurance Fund, following the abrupt firing last week of two SCIF officials, including its president. The state's Senate Banking, Finance...
Former Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration FDA Lester M. Crawford pied guilty in October to a Conflict of Interest charge and Making False Financial Disclosures to the U.S. Senate and the Executive Branch. Crawford faces a sentence of up to one year...
Abstract The European region regulates more than any single country in the world, and such over-regulation, along with higher taxes and labor and environmental standards, has increasingly caused European industry to lag behind its Asian and American competitors. As a result, a growing competitiveness and technology gap has arisen...
Jury of readers Phill Kline lays out his case to be the next attorney general of Kansas. Monday in The Capital-Journal A primary focus After five successful campaigns for the Kansas Senate, Dave Kerr goes after a bigger prize. IN...
El Paso County Commissioner Ed Jones announced his bid Tuesday for State Senate District 11. Jones, 61, attended Southern University in Louisiana and served in the Army, which brought him to Colorado Springs. Discharged in 1965, he worked for 12 years in retail before going into real estate....
Embattled California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush--under fire for his role in allowing insurance companies to avoid potentially huge fines by donating millions of dollars to a nonprofit foundation he set up--faces a new round of Senate hearings directed by a political rival. The...
California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush -- under fire for his role in allowing insurance companies to avoid potentially huge fines by donating millions of dollars to a nonprofit foundation he set up -- faces a new round of Senate hearings directed by a political rival. ...
Let's say you're in court. The judge walks in; all rise. The opposing attorney approaches the bench and hands his honor a fat wad of bills. The judge stuffs them up his sleeve, then gavels the court into session. Outrage! The lawyer is disbarred, the judge disgraced. Case closed....
In a dramatic escalation of the political scandal surrounding his use of nonprofit foundations to reach settlements with earthquake insurers, California Insurance Commissioner Charles Quackenbush walked out of a jammed hearing room after refusing to In a dramatic escalation of the political scandal surrounding his...
A bill to return regulation of credit health and life insurance rates and loss ratios in California to the insurance commissioner was defeated by a Senate committee. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi said the bill was badly needed because "credit insurance companies have grown fat...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Ongoing probes of California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush's regulatory and political affairs may sideline him from efforts to repair the state's troubled workers compensation market, insurer representatives fear. SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Ongoing probes of California Insurance Commissioner Chuck...
California's Republican insurance commissioner, Charles Quackenbush, appearing under subpoena, told a state legislative committee that he was aware of details of the spending of millions of dollars in funds that were collected from insurers in an arr California's Republican insurance commissioner, Charles Quackenbush, appearing under...
Legislative efforts to deregulate personal lines insurance recently moved forward in Nevada, but were beaten back in Texas. The Nevada Senate approved a compromise personal lines deregulation bill that would allow insurers to file and immediately u Legislative efforts to deregulate personal lines insurance...
California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush's new "good driver regulations" to implement a critical provision of Proposition 103 are supported by consumers and the author of the initiative, but the insurance industry has launched a fuCalifornia Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush's new "good driver regulations" to implement a...
Amid a big Bush administration concession, congressional negotiators and their staffs began meeting last week to hammer out a compromise pension funding reform bill. Both the House and Senate have passed bills that for the next two years would allow Amid a big Bush administration...
THE GENERAL ELECTION NOV. 4 Voters in the Pikes Peak region will get a voice in picking the president, one of Colorado's two U.S. senators, a U.S. representative in the 5th Congressional District, members of the state House and Senate, amendments to laws and the state Constitution,...
Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-New Orleans, on Thursday urged the U.S. secretary of agriculture to declare Louisiana an agriculture disaster to help the state's agriculture industry recover from hurricanes Gustav and Ike and Tropical Storm Fay. During a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Disaster...
The IRS is pursuing "numerous" investigations of financial institutions that helped foreign investors avoid federal taxes on U.S. stock dividends through allegedly abusive offshore transactions, the tax agency's top official told Congress on Thursday. IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman made the disclosure at a Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations...
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