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With various bills intending to reshape how the insurance industry is regulated now advancing in both houses of Congress, Leigh Ann Pusey stepped into the legislative equivalent of a maelstrom when she became president and CEO of the American Insurance Association in February.

When Dr. Hal Snyder joined Health Care for America Now in December, he was looking to help fix “a crisis.” Recently, Snyder and more than 50 other people held a rally outside the Schaumburg office of Rep.

WASHINGTON – In a triumph for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed sweeping legislation Friday that calls for the nation's first limits on pollution linked to global warming and aims to usher in a new era of cleaner, yet more costly energy.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., helped introduce legislation Tuesday needed to complete the James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago.

The Obama administration has leaned on Melissa Bean to make the case to both Democrats and Republicans on the need for reform.

WASHINGTON – President Obama proposed sweeping new “rules of the road” for the nation's financial system Wednesday, casting the changes as a critically important response to the economic crisis and the greatest regulatory transformation since the Great Depression.

U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin and U.S. Rep. Melissa Bean are urging Illinois small-business owners facing credit problems to consider the U.S. Small Business Administration's lending programs.

Reporting from Washington -- Obama administration officials appear to have had two key concerns in writing the most significant financial rules since the Great Depression -- moving quickly, before the momentum for reform evaporates, and avoiding withering turf battles with regulators and lawmakers that could derail the effort.

President Obama addresses the American Medical Association on Monday during their annual meeting in Chicago.

On the phone from the nation's capital, Melissa Bean talked about the hidden elements of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the economic stimulus package.

INSURANCE UPDATE: What Should the Role of the Federal Government Be? A debate is brewing in Congress over what oversight a super-regulator would have over the insurance industry in the aftermath of the AIG downfall.

RESTON, Va.-- --MAXIMUS , a leading provider of government services, announced this morning that Richard Montoni, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Bruce Caswell, President and General - 06/08/2009 - 06:29 AM HOLLYWOOD, Fla.-- --The National Investor Relations Institute today announced its annual Chapter Awards and Chapter Leadership ...

Can a rebound in U.S. home sales also include an increase in energy-efficient homes? Some local businesses say yes, and they turned out in Schaumburg Tuesday to support measures that promote that aim.

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin will join U.S. Representative Melissa Bean and Small Business Administration Acting Regional Administrator and Illinois District Director Judith Roussel at a roundtable discussion and news conference with local small business owners and lenders to discuss the impact of funding included in the American Recovery and ...

According to a new Wall Street Journal analysis that uses data from the Center for Responsive Politics, during the first three months of 2009, 31 financial institutions and trade groups spent a combined $27.6 million on federal lobbying and gave $286,000 in campaign contributions to lawmakers tasked with the oversight of the financial rules they ...

Supporters of an optional federal charter for insurers are taking exception to a New York Times editorial, which charged that an OFC would engender regulatory arbitrage.

Sixty-eight U.S. congressmen, including St. Charles Democrat Bill Foster, and Illinois Republicans Aaron Schock and John Shimkus, released a letter Monday to the Treasury Department's Auto Task Force, asking the group to help reverse the closing of GM and Chrysler auto dealerships.

Forget about sugary soft drinks. Americans appear to be ingesting something far more disturbing with every glass of water they drink: prescription drugs.

Opponents of an optional federal charter for insurers are renewing their fight against their legislation, and the legislators who sponsor it.

U.S. Rep. Melissa Bean, right, talks with Carla Gerts from Windy City Connections, after Bean's speech to Schaumburg business leaders Tuesday.