Guests at a high-dollar New York fundraiser for presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton were treated to cocktails, dinner and an hourlong business tutorial from billionaire Warren Buffett. Buffett, the founder of the Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and one …
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, seeking support from labor union members in New Jersey, vowed this week to make health insurance available to all Americans by the end of his first term in the White House. “We can have universal …
Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink has rebuked the state’s insurance commissioner for hosting a political fundraiser on behalf of the wife of one of his employees. Sink also said she has ordered the department’s inspector general to investigate whether …
Health care coverage would no longer be optional in the United States under a plan announced Monday by presidential candidate John Edwards that would require all businesses to provide insurance and all Americans to have it. The 2004 vice presidential …
Potential presidential rivals Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Barack Obama are joining with newly independent Sen. Joe Lieberman on a plan they say would reduce global-warming gases by two-thirds over the next four decades. Their bill, being announced …
The Bush administration will continue to support a benefits program for Cold War-era nuclear weapons workers, President Bush’s budget director says. Rob Portman pledged to support the five-year-old program in a letter to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. The letter, which …
Five legislators have each accepted a “Seat Belt Champion Award” from the Nashville-based Meharry-State Farm Alliance, that applauds their success at inserting a primary enforcement amendment into the state’s existing seat belt statute that became law in South Carolina. The …
