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A new anti-piracy bill is being introduced in congress today as an alternative to the Stop Online Piracy Act, says CNET’s Declan McCulloch. SOPA has received a lot of criticism since it was first introduced a few weeks ago. Free speech advocates didn’t like how the anti-piracy bill would lead to the take down of […]

Get this: congress can compromise!

If Congress doesn't do much this year, lets automatic cuts of $1.2 trillion kick in and the Bush tax cuts expire, that cuts $5 trillion from the deficit within a decade.

We speak to David Kelly of JP Morgan Funds about what he thinks the possible outcome of the super committee stand-off could be.

The controversial Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA will be the sole subject of a House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. SOPA is the House version of the Senate’s Protect IP act which got strangled by Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) who echoed the views of many in the tech industry that the measure gave law enforcement far too much power in shutting down websites that are suspected of trafficking in unlicensed content...

Politico's Tony Romm reports on efforts in Congress to figure out which laws apply and which new laws need to be created to keep up with the push...

15 Democrats in the House have sent a letter to President Obama urging the administration to find some way to make the proposed Big Acquisition go...

I'm not sure how anyone in Congress has any time to do anything but try to figure out how to get a debt crisis deal done, but apparently, they do....

This guy say you don't need to join a hacker collective before federal agents can follow your trail in cyber space....

Google searches about NFL teams and tickets spiked today after the league's owners and players came to an agreement to end the lockout. ...