Sixteen U.S. senators, including the Agriculture Committee's top Democrat and Republican, sent the U.S. Department of Agriculture a letter on July 2 scolding it for proposing $6 billion in cuts to crop insurance. This letter comes the same week that Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) voiced support for increasing and improving crop insurance coverage at the Committee's ...

SENATORS are reviving a proposal to transfer the Senate to the Film Center to save P200 million a year in rentals to the pension fund Government Service Insurance System.

It seems some senators are determined to transfer the Senate office to the haunted Manila Film Center to make it as the permanent office of the Upper Chamber and eventually save the annual P200-million fees it gives to the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) in Pasay City. Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri said that Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile has ordered the creation of a small ad-hoc ...

The Senate Committee on Banks, Insurance and other financial Institutions yesterday queried the Head of Service of the Federation, Mr. Stephen Oronsaye, over the sum of N8 billion insurance claims appropriated for the payment of insurance benefits for federal civil servants over the past three years.

The New Hampshire Senate has voted to increase transparency and accountability of publicly funded pooled risk management programs.