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Lawmakers Scrutinize Bank And Brokerage Mandatory Arbitration Agreements

by Zachary Miller | Mar 8, 2022 | Business, Featured

WASHINGTON — Last Thursday, President Biden signed into law a bipartisan bill to bar companies from contractually forcing sexual assault and harrassment complaints into arbitration. Now, the change has reinvigorated efforts to pass similar legislation in the financial...

Senate Republicans still fuming over Cordray appointment

by Shirley Li | Jan 31, 2012 | Business, National Security

WASHINGTON – The flames of controversy that burst over President Barack Obama’s recess appointment of Richard Cordray as Director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are still smoldering. Four Republican members of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban...

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Special Reports

STATE OF THE UNION 2018

Medill on the Hill teamed up with Northwestern News Network in Evanston to produce a package of stories covering President Barack Obama's seventh and final State of the Union address. The two newsrooms collaborated across time zones to produce a three-hour broadcast and more than a dozen print and digital reports. Check out our broadcast here.

CYBERSECURITY

In a series of investigative reports, Medill on the Hill reporters uncovered threats to privacy and security in the digital age ranging from the safety of your online campaign donations to how computer hacking could impact food safety.