Enlarge / The dome of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images | Phil Roeder) A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House of Representatives introduced a bill that would force social media platforms to allow people to use the site without algorithms that filter or prioritize the content that users […]
Enlarge / The House Ways and Means Committee has proposed a wide-ranging overhaul of the current electric vehicle incentives as part of the infrastructure bill. (credit: Stadtratte) On Friday, the House Ways and Means Committee released a markup of its proposed budget reconciliation bill. There’s a ton of information in the $3. 5 trillion plan, […]
A majority of the U.S. House has voted to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time, just a week after he encouraged loyalists to “fight like hell” against election results—a speech that was followed by a mob of his supporters storming the U.S. Capitol. The House vote on an article of impeachment for “incitement […]
For the first time since January 2015, the majority of the Senate is in the hands of the Democrats. The party pulled off a stunning double victory in Georgia’s runoff elections, turning the traditionally conservative state firmly blue following President-elect Joe Biden’s win there in November. With Vice President–elect Kamala Harris’s tie-breaking vote in the […]
For years, the Democratic caucus has been led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi—the lone woman at the top in Congress. Next term, Pelosi will be joined by Rep. Katherine Clark, the Massachusetts congresswoman. Democrats elected Clark to the role of assistant speaker last week in a race against Rhode Island Rep. David Cicilline. Although the […]
Today, days prior to the Nov. 3 election, she appears to have done this, and now she ’s enlarging her reach. With control of the home barely contested, Pelosi has been currently working to reinforce Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and acquire additional House seats if Congress is called to solve any Electoral College dispute together with President […]
Expand / The United States Capitol Building, the chair of Congress, on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Last June, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law started a comprehensive investigation to four Important companies –Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. The subcommittee needed to answer one crucial question: did Enormous Tech get […]
A House panel suggested stricter antitrust reforms to curtail the ability of U.S. tech giants such as Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, culminating a 16-month analysis using a damning 449-page report which Republicans mostly shunned. The recommendations in the House antitrust subcommittee symbolize the most spectacular proposal to reform contest law in years, and might result […]