The House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy held a hearing today entitled, “Revamping and Revitalizing Banking in the 21st Century.” One of the bills discussed during the hearing, the Financial Data Privacy Act, seeks to revise existing federal standards for consumer data privacy by expanding the requirements associated with the …
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The PIA Government Relations staff has reviewed PIA’s past policy positions and Congress’s current priorities, and, in consultation with PIA members across the country, we have developed our 2023 Policy Priorities. While the items below are our top priorities for this year, PIA is always working to promote the interests of our independent agent members, …
This week PIA, along with a coalition of crop insurance stakeholders, sent Congress and the administration letters urging them to protect crop insurance from funding cuts in the Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) budget and appropriations process. The letters were addressed to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and the leaders of the House and Senate Budget and Appropriations committees. Despite the critical role …
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In 2022, PIA implemented a series of year-round advocacy events, which gave agents the chance to meet virtually with federal policymakers on the issues that matter most to them. These rolling fly-ins were critical in advancing the interests of PIA members on our most pressing issues of focus, even as Capitol Hill’s heightened access restrictions persisted, …
For months, PIA has been supporting efforts to convince House and Senate leadership to reopen the Capitol office buildings to the public, and we are pleased that, beginning with the new 118th Congress, Capitol Hill office buildings have reopened to the public. Since the pandemic began two years ago, access to the Capitol complex has been …
The 118th Congress begins today, January 3rd, 2023, bringing divided leadership to Washington, D.C. The Republican party is now in control of the U.S. House of Representatives, which is made up of 222 Republicans and 212 Democrats (and one vacancy). The U.S. Senate will continue to be led by the Democratic party, which has 48 Senate …
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The deal to fund the federal government beyond its current expiration date of December 23, 2022, to September 30, 2023 was released this morning and includes PIA-supported crop insurance provisions, just weeks after PIA crop insurance agents came to Washington, D.C. to promote them. Throughout the fall, PIA aggressively advocated in favor of the inclusion …
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The Senate last night passed the continuing resolution (CR) to fund the federal government through December 23, 2022. An extension of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), set to expire tonight, Friday, December 16 at 11:59pm, was included in the bill. The House passed the one-week CR earlier this week. The CR now goes to the White …
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is set to expire at 11:59pm this Friday, December 16 unless Congress extends it. The authority to fund the federal government also must be extended by Friday as well. Tonight, the House passed a stopgap continuing resolution (CR) to fund the federal government for one week to December 23 …
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Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) last week introduced S. 5149, a bill to remove agents from a definition that would result in burdensome requirements for agents enrolling consumers into Medicare. PIA supports this legislation. The bill seeks to reverse the harmful Medicare rule that could discourage licensed agents and brokers from representing Medicare Advantage and Part …
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