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There appears to be at least one remaining holdout within the bipartisan House immigration group that announced an "agreement in principle" on a far-reaching proposal Thursday: Rep.

The growing use of unmanned surveillance "eyes in the sky" aircraft raises a thicket of privacy concerns, but Congress is getting mixed advice on what, if anything, to do about it.

Hell hath no fury like a journalist snooped upon. Thankfully, it's a public-minded kind of fury, in a case that throws light on the erosion of privacy and freedom of the press.

When Chris Matthews files for divorce from Barack Obama, you know the world is upside down.

President Barack Obama defended his embattled Attorney General Eric Holder, embroiled in a scandal over seizing the phone records of 20 Associated Press reporters and editor in April and May of last year as part of a leak investigation.

After years of negotiating and a week that saw one of its members nearly bolt from the group, a bipartisan group of House members finally announced Thursday that they had reached a deal 'in principle' on a Rep.

The last time Congress tried to pass major copyright reforms, 2011's Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act , it pissed off just about every corner of the Internet, from Google to Wikipedia to the Teen Witch Fan Club .

While most of the House Judiciary Committee's hearing with Attorney General Eric Holder consisted of a feisty back-and-forth between the representatives and the witness, a child's cries brought a moment of lighthearted amusement.

Federal law enforcers say they have their hands full with criminals who skirt legal surveillance by using hard-to-wiretap services like Google and Facebook.

Attorney General Eric Holder is facing questions before the House Judiciary Committee on a variety of controversies shadowing the Obama administration, ranging from the Justice Department's seizure of Associated Press phone records to the IRS targeting of conservative groups to the Benghazi, Libya, terrorist attack in which Ambassador Christopher ... (more)

The " Unlocking Technology Act of 2013 ," proposed by Rep. Zoe Lofgren , provides that people can tinker with digital locks on software -- the digital rights management technology that prevents people from copying programs -- as long as they aren't doing so in order to infringe copyright.

In late January, unlocking your cellphone technically became illegal after the Librarian of Congress removed it from the DMCA exception list last year.

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo. , issued the following news release: Reps.

Behind the scenes, RaAol Labrador and Luis Gutierrez are using their bond over heritage to get a comprehensive overhaul through the House-all with Paul Ryan's blessing.

A funny thing happened on the way to Congress yesterday. For once, lawmakers introduced a common-sense bill - the Unlocking Technology Act of 2013 .

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National Nurses United, the nation's largest organization of nurses, today greeted the re-introduction of a bill in the House of Representatives by Rep.

In the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, the United States Congress required, inter alia, the SEC to promulgate regulations requiring certain manufacturers to trace the sources of tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold that are contained in products they manufacture or contract to manufacture to allow them to report yearly to the SEC whether the products are "not DRC ... (more)

Well, it's that time of decade again. Someone in Congress has finally-or, rather, once again- taken note of how the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions step all over consumer rights and introduced legislation to try to balance the scales.

A bipartisan group of Congressional lawmakers wants the United States to have a Science Laureate.