Latest on FDA Drug Approval, Medicaid, Rural Hospitals and Medicare Payments Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 7/28/2025 8:09:00 AM A recent policy event in Washington, DC featured top policymakers discussing a wide variety of public policy and political concerns; healthcare issues featured prominently. Read More
Freeing Digital Trade Between U.S. and Indonesia Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 7/25/2025 8:57:00 AM As part of a newly-announced trade deal between the U.S. and Indonesia, the White House stressed the agreement would "unlock major breakthroughs for America’s... digital sectors." Read More
Trump White House Action Plan for Artificial Intelligence Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 7/23/2025 11:39:00 AM President Donald Trump released new proposals for regulating and supporting artificial intelligence (AI) on July 23, 2025. “America’s AI Action Plan” insists that the U.S. “needs to innovate faster and more comprehensively than our competitors in the development and distribution of new AI technology across every field, and dismantle unnecessary regulatory barriers that hinder the private sector in doing so.” Read More
Setting Regulatory Guardrails for AI Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 7/17/2025 11:47:00 AM According to a leading House Democrat, there is still an opportunity to set a regulatory approach to artificial intelligence in Congress. Read More
ISO 20252 and Federal Contracting Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 7/14/2025 2:24:00 PM The Insights Association has urged the federal government to add the market research ISO 20252 to the list of approved and accepted certifications for federal contractors. Read More
New U.S. Law Gives Financial Boost to Continuing Education for Insights Professionals Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 7/8/2025 2:56:00 PM The big tax and budget reconciliation law, signed by President Trump on July 4, 2025, includes a provision sought by the Insights Association to empower the insights industry’s workforce with more flexible and affordable approaches to training. Read More
Fighting for You: June 2025 Legislative and Regulatory Update Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 6/26/2025 3:16:00 PM June brought lots of sizzling policy developments for the insights industry -- some promising, others challenging. Thankfully, the Insights Association was right in the thick of it. Let’s look at some wins on privacy issues and political polling, a troubling GDPR case in Europe, lots of new guidance on privacy, AI, HR, and email laws, developments on indirect costs in federally-funded research, and more. Read More
Florida Kills Proposal That Would Have Prohibited Election Polling by State Universities Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 6/23/2025 8:07:00 AM The Florida legislature turned its back on a bill opposed by the Insights Association that would have banned public colleges and universities from polling on political candidates. Read More
New Approaches Proposed for Indirect Costs in Federally-Funded Research Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 6/13/2025 3:12:00 PM Early in the second Trump Administration, the federal government instituted a uniform 15 percent cap on indirect cost rates in government-funded research (including insights work). A group of experts are developing new models for funding indirect costs, and the Insights Association seeks member feedback on it. Read More
CFPB Withdraws Data Broker Rules That Could Have Clobbered Insights Work Howard Fienberg Government Affairs 6/3/2025 5:01:00 PM The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) withdrew a regulatory proposal that could have unfairly applied restrictions in the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) to the work of many insights professionals. It would have been a misguided legal end-run around Congress to create a federal privacy law. Read More