House Leadership Rejects Senate Immigration Bill

Mike Flynn Breitbart.com Big Government 23 May 2013

This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee completed its work on the “Gang of 8” Amnesty Bill. The full Senate is expected to take up the legislation the first week of June, when it returns from Memorial Day recess. On Thursday, House GOP leadership made clear that the […]

Maxine Waters’ Ethics Case WILL Proceed

Jeff Dunetz Yid With Lid 6/6/2012

When ethics charges were brought up against California Rep Maxine Waters in 2010 she responded with cries of racism and unfair practices from the committee’s lawyers that violated her rights. The truth was the ONLY thing unfair was that Ms. Waters may have helped her husbands bank receive TARP […]

SOPA becoming election liability for backers

Jennifer Martinez Politico 1/10/2012

To the ranks of same-sex marriage, tax cuts and illegal immigration, add this to the list of polarizing political issues of Election 2012: the Stop Online Piracy Act.

The hot-button anti-piracy legislation that sparked a revolt online is starting to become a political liability for some of SOPA’s major backers. Fueled […]

‘Very Dangerous Legislation Moving Forward’–Our SOPA Round-up

David Foster Chicago Boyz 12/30/2011

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, writes:

This week, a bill that would create America’s first Internet censorship system is going to a full committee for a vote, and is likely to pass.

He is referring to the “Stop Online Piracy” act and the related “Protect IP” […]

Bill Harming Online Privacy Moving Through Congress

Nicole Ozer Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director ACLU of Northern California 7/27/2011

Today, the House Judiciary Committee is voting whether to approve legislation that would create a sweeping new provision requiring Internet companies (email, cloud, social networking, and more) to collect and retain hundreds of millions of records about the identity of online users. […]

Senators Al Franken, Maria Cantwell to introduce net neutrality legislation

The State Column 3/18/2011

Minnesota U.S. Senator Al Franken will join Washington U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell in introducing legislation aimed to preserving net neutrality.

Earlier this week Senators Al Franken and Maria Cantwell announced their intentions to introduce legislation that would make it a federal anti-trust violation for privately owned phone and internet providers to […]

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