The U.S. Senate voted to once again advance the Marketplace Fairness Act, a bill that would place a mandatory state sales tax on things sold over the Internet.
The Senate has backed a repeal of a 2.3 percent tax on medical device makers that was enacted as part of Obamacare.
A landmark bill has been proposed in the Senate to force California's universities to give credit for online classes.
Julian Assange, who is currently in exile in London's Ecuadorian embassy, plans to run for senate after launching a new, Wikileaks-based political party in Australia.
The Lieberman-Collins Cyber Security Act was defeated in the Senate today by a vote of 52-46 — four senators shy of its requirement to move forward.
The Senate bill was a response to the House’s Cyber Intelligence Security Protection Act …
The senate is expected to vote on an amendment next week that would allow video rental services like Netflix to take advantage of deeper integration with social networks like Facebook.
Despite being the country’s largest streaming movie service, Netflix is …
The U.S. Senate just passed a bill requiring all new cars in America to come equipped with a black box-like data recording device starting in 2015, InfoWars reports. Similar to the tell-all black boxes on airplanes, event data recorders (EDR) …
At a Senate judiciary committee hearing Wednesday, top executives from Verizon and Comcast reaffirmed their stance that consumers would benefit from the approval of a multibillion-dollar spectrum deal between the largest U.S. carrier and the country’s biggest cable television providers.…
A vote on the highly debated proposed piece of legislation the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) has been postponed, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced today.
PIPA, which was previously scheduled for a vote Jan. 24, is essentially the …
Sen. Patrick Leahy (VT-D) is backing down on portions of the controversial Protect IP Act (PIPA) after a massive amount of criticism from human rights groups and tech industry leaders, the senator said in a statement today.
PIPA, which Leahy …
