Category «Legislation»

The hidden provision in the Big Ugly Bill that makes Trump king

Robert Reich: H.R.1 – One Big Beautiful Bill Act – This text has been loaded in plain text format due to the large size of the XML/HTML file. Loading the XML/HTML in a new window (2MB) may take several minutes or possibly cause your browser to become unresponsive. “…But I want to alert you to one …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill

404 Media: “Late last night, House Republicans introduced new language to the Budget Reconciliation bill that will immiserate the lives of millions of Americans by cutting their access to Medicaid, and making life much more difficult for millions more by making them pay higher fees when they seek medical care. While a lot of attention …

Subjects: AI, Congress, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Legislation, Medicine, Poverty

Artificial Intelligence 2025 Legislation

NCLS – Artificial Intelligence 2025 Legislation Updated March 22, 2025 – “AI—the use of computer systems to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as learning and decision-making—has the potential to spur innovation and transform industry and government. As AI advances and widespread adoption of these tools increase,  government, business and the public are …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Education, Health Care, Housing, Internet, Legal Research, Legislation, Privacy

How to Handle AI? Italian National Regulation in the Context of European Law

In Custodia Legis: Thursday, May 22, 2:00 p.m. “How to Handle AI? – Italian National Regulation in the Context of European Law” – A Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar. Join senior legal research analyst Dante Figueroa and senior researcher at the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Roberto D’Orazio for a Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar titled, …

Subjects: AI, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation

Republican Budget Plan Could Result in Millions Losing Healthcare

The Hill: “The cuts, under consideration as part of a broader push to offset the cost of Donald Trump’s proposed “big, beautiful bill,” would target the very programs that expanded access to care under the Affordable Care Act. From rolling back federal funding for Medicaid expansion to repealing enrollment protections, each option on the table …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Legislation, Medicine

100 Days of Corruption

100 Days In, Trump is Blocking At Least $430 Billion Dollars in Funding Owed to American People ***VIEW NEW TRACKER HERE*** Inside Climate News – In His First 100 Days, Trump Launched an ‘All-Out Assault’ on the Environment. Compared to his first term, the threat posed by Trump’s second administration is on a “new level,” …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Congress, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Education, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Aetna/CVS pulling out of ACA exchanges next year as GOP allows IRA subsidies to expire

ACASignUps.net “CVS Plans To Exit Obamacare In 2026, Affecting 1 Million Aetna Members – CVS Health plans to exit the individual health insurance business also known as Obamacare next year, leaving about 1 million Aetna members in 17 states looking for new coverage in 2026…CVS’ move to exit the individual insurance market comes as the …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Health Care, Legislation, Medicine

New 118th Congress Legislative Effectiveness Scores

Executive Summary – The Center for Effective Lawmaking (CEL) is pleased to announce the release of the Legislative Effectiveness Scores (LES) for the recently completed 118th Congress (2023-25). This report offers highlights from our initial analyses of these scores, including: We list the top-10 lawmakers in each party in the House and Senate, including many …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Medicaid, CHIP, ACA & Medicare enrollment by House District

ACAsingUps.Net: [Note – please continue to scroll down the page to read completely updated analysis and data that is also now available in PDF] -“Over the past couple of months I’ve compiled a master spreadsheet breaking out enrollment in ACA plans (Qualified Health Plans & Basic Health Plans), Medicaid/CHIP coverage (both traditional & via ACA …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Legislation, Medicine

“A republic, if you can keep it” – but can the US keep it? How Trump is dismantling democracy

Christina Pagel – “Mapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information. Thomas Jefferson probably never said “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”, but that doesn’t make it less true. Since President Trump’s second …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Congress, Courts, Economy, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation, Privacy

Artificial Intelligence and Aggregate Litigation

Wilf-Townsend, Daniel, Artificial Intelligence and Aggregate Litigation (March 01, 2025). 103 Wash. U. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2026), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5163640 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5163640 – The era of AI litigation has begun, and it is already clear that the class action will have a distinctive role to play. AI-powered tools are often valuable because they …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation

How the U.S. Public and AI Experts View Artificial Intelligence

“The public and experts are far apart in their enthusiasm and predictions for AI. But they share similar views in wanting more personal control and worrying regulation will fall short. With artificial intelligence no longer the stuff of science fiction, its benefits and risks are being debated by everyone from casual observers to scholars. A …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation