The backlash against the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act isn't over. A coalition of 75 Internet advocacy groups sent an open letter to Congress asking it to put intellectual property lawmaking on hold.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday pressed lawmakers to pass his proposal to provide as much as $10 billion in aid to struggling homeowners, saying a failure to address the housing crisis would put the rest of the economy at risk.
NDAA protests have begun at congressional offices nationwide, as opponents look to keep up the pressure on their elected representatives to repeal the National Defense Authorization Act.
Mobbed by cameramen and with two fingers raised in a victory salute, Subramanian Swamy stood before the Supreme Court on Thursday, flushed with the vindication of an unrelenting legal campaign aimed at the country's most powerful politicians and the Congress party.
Internet search engine giant Google has sent a 13-page letter to eight members of the House of Representatives to defend its privacy policy consolidation, after the Congress members expressed their concerns about the change.
Netflix Inc on Tuesday urged a panel of senators to support legislation that it said would allow the company's U.S. users to share information on Facebook about the TV shows and movies they are watching through Netflix's service.
Sen. Tom Coburn, who was one of two votes against an insider trading law aimed at lawmakers, said the real inside trading that sours Americans on Congress is the political horse trading on legislation.
Millions of Indians went to the polls on Monday in Punjab and Uttarakhand where the country's ruling Congress party hopes to regain momentum after a year when its reputation was battered by corruption scandals and a slowing economy.
The possible release of detained Taliban leaders is likely to join Iran's nuclear ambitions at the top of a busy agenda when the top seven American intelligence chiefs testify before the Congress this week.
Michael Roseman, the former chief risk officer who is said to have raised red flags about aggressive trading bets at MF Global , will testify before Congress next week, according to a congressional staffer familiar with the matter.
The majority of U.S. registered voters would vote out every single member of Congress if they could, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Friday.
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords officially resigned from the House of Representatives on Wednesday in an emotional goodbye for the three term congresswoman serving Arizona's 8th congressional district. She returned to the House floor one last time as her colleagues unanimously approved her bipartisan border security legislation as she stepped down from office.
With Congressional approval ratings mired at historic lows, Obama has increasingly sought to bolster his re-election chances by criticizing Congress as ineffective and paralyzed by runaway partisanship. He invoked that theme in the State of the Union address.
Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will resign from Congress this week, she announced on Sunday. Giffords, a Democrat, has made a remarkable recovery after being shot in the head but she said in a video released today (see below) that she needs to focus on her rehabilitation.
The U.S. Congress has the constitutional right to legislate permits for cross-border oil pipelines such as the TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL, according to a new legal analysis released late on Friday.
Lawmakers stopped anti-piracy legislation in its tracks on Friday, delivering a stunning win for Internet companies that staged an unprecedented online protest this week to kill the previously fast-moving bills.
Lawmakers on Friday indefinitely postponed anti-piracy legislation that pits Hollywood against Silicon Valley, two days after major Internet companies staged an online protest by blacking out parts of prominent websites.
U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, author of the controversial SOPA bill, received more campaign cash from the entertainment industry than from any other source.
Some members of the U.S. Congress switched sides to oppose antipiracy legislation as protests blanketed the Internet on Wednesday, turning Wikipedia dark and putting black slashes on Google and other sites as if they had been censored.
In the midst of a battle over SOPA, the controversial anti-piracy legislation, the Supreme Court backed Congress' authority to take foreign works out of the public domain.
Eighty members of Congress support SOPA and PIPA, including 42 Democrats and 37 Republicans.
Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett said he would donate $1 to paying down the national debt for every dollar donated by a Republican in Congress. The only exception is Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell -- for whom Buffett said he would go $3-to-$1.
