WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Senate Judiciary Committee plans to hold a hearing on March 26 to examine how the proposed merger of Comcast Corp and Time Warner Cable Inc would affect consumers, the committees chairman said on Monday. Although lawmakers have no formal role in reviewing mergers and acquisitions, Senator Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, […]
A bipartisan bill that cracks down on potentially frivolous suits from patent trolls has passed the House of Representatives. Rep. Bob Goodlattes (R-VA) Innovation Act passed committee in November and reached the House floor today, where it was approved in a vote of 325 to 91. The Patent Transparency and Improvements Act, a companion bill […]
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has been a vocal critic of the NSAs sweeping surveillance of phone and internet records since the first round of leaks about the secret programs occurred last summer. But today, Leahy unleashed his most blistering assessment of the NSA, saying in a statement, I am particularly concerned that the NSA has […]
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