Federal Regulation
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Thankful
By Bill MillerAs the turkey's least favorite time of the year arrives, I reluctantly must face the inevitable truth. Another precious year has passed -- and I...
October 29, 2006
ACLI: OFC Effort Is Making Progress, But Work RemainsThe insurance industry has made significant progress towards the enactment of optional federal charter legislation in 2006, but there is still a long way to ...
October 29, 2006
ACLI: OFC Effort Is Making Progress, But Work RemainsThe insurance industry has made significant progress towards the enactment of optional federal charter legislation in 2006, but there is still a long way to ...
October 23, 2006
Government Spending RevealedOn October 10, OMB Watch and The Center for Responsive Politics launched databases that provide the public with detailed information on federal spending. The three new tools were made possible by grants from the Sunlight Foundation, which supports using "new information technologies to ensure greater transparency and accountability by the...
October 23, 2006
Lobbyist: Passing OFC Could Take 5 YearsBills that would establish an optional federal charter for insurers have strong bipartisan support in the Senate.Kim Dorgan, executive vice president of federal relations at ...
October 23, 2006
Lobbyist: Passing OFC Could Take 5 YearsBills that would establish an optional federal charter for insurers have strong bipartisan support in the Senate.Kim Dorgan, executive vice president of federal relations at ...
October 22, 2006
IRS Proposes Annuity Exchange RegsThe Internal Revenue Service has proposed regulations that would apply the same rules to taxpayers who trade either ordinary commercial annuities or "private" annuities for ...
October 22, 2006
IRS Proposes Annuity Exchange RegsThe Internal Revenue Service has proposed regulations that would apply the same rules to taxpayers who trade either ordinary commercial annuities or "private" annuities for ...