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U.S. Rep. Barney Frank , Sen. Charles Schumer and Sen. Christopher Dodd brief the media after a bipartisan meeting on Capitol Hill to discuss the bailout plan for the nation's financial crisis in Washington, DC on Sept.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon, left, meets Clare Powell of Stamford during an appearance at SBC Restaurant & Brewery in Stamford, Thursday night, Feb.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon, left, meets Clare Powell of Stamford during an appearance at SBC Restaurant & Brewery in Stamford, Thursday night, Feb.

Democratic leadership are hoping for votes on amendments Thursday to legislation seeking to curtail insider trading of securities by lawmakers, though many of the measures under consideration are controversial and could bog down final passage of the bill.

The powers that be sure seem to be pulling out all the stops in their attempt to win passage of the notorious Stop Online Privacy Act , or SOPA, which - if it ever makes it into law - is liable to force the closure of some of the Web's most popular sites, including NaturalNews.

So in conjunction with Martin Luther King Day on Monday, the Huskies wanted to observe more than civil rights.

Actor George Clooney, former Sen. Christopher Dodd, actress Shailene Woodley and Fox's Jim Gianopulos arrive to the premiere of Fox Searchlight's "The Descendants" at AMPAS Samuel Goldwyn Theater on November 15, 2011 in Beverly Hills, California.

Here is the first sentence from a news story about what's going on in Washington: "California's two most prominent and powerful industries -- Silicon Valley and Hollywood -- are at war in Washington." That sounds about right, given the recent turn of events over the Protect Intellectual Property Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act , both of which ... (more)

On the Internet, Google and Facebook have both become superpowers. But until recently, they have often looked more like 90-pound weaklings in Washington, D.C. That is changing rapidly as Google and Facebook increase their spending on lobbying.

Chris Dodd - retired Senator from Connecticut, current CEO of the MPAA, and unofficial Commissioner of the Fun Police - has become the most vocal Hollywood advocate for anti-piracy legislation.

The Motion Picture Association of America suggested on Thursday that the White House would be the perfect place to convene a summit between Hollywood and the tech industry on online piracy.

The online piracy bill that helped spark this week's unprecedented Internet protests will be redrafted, its lead sponsor in the House of Representatives said Friday.

Web-site attacks ranged far and wide this afternoon, with online activists allegedly taking aim at more than a dozen Web sites of organizations with ties to controversial piracy legislation.

When Wikipedia and other websites shut down Jan. 18 to protest two anti-piracy bills, was it a stunt? Sure.

Lest we thought that SOPA was dead and buried, a couple of further developments today have shown that hope is premature.

Google Inc. will place a link on its home page tomorrow protesting anti-piracy measures in the U.S. Congress, joining other Internet companies demonstrating against the Hollywood-backed legislation.