In a breaking new development this morning, President Barack Obama has granted a last-minute request from Attorney General Eric Holder to exert executive privilege over Fast and Furious documents. The move comes just as the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is expected to meet this morning to vote on a contempt resolution against Holder. [...]
The House Oversight Committee will vote next week on whether or not to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, according to CBS News. It’s just the fourth time in the past 30 years that Congress has launched a contempt action against an executive branch official. The dispute stems from Holder allegedly failing [...]
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It wasn’t supposed to happen this way. The House of Representatives was supposed to debate the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act last night (Thursday) and then vote on it today (Friday). As usual, though, Congress is trying to speed things up before the outcry over the questionable piece of legislation becomes to loud [...]
Yesterday, the Senate passed a plan to help salvage the struggling U.S. Postal Service in an effort that could end up saving thousands of jobs and as many as 100 mail processing plants now slated to be shut down. The Senate voted 62-37 to help save the heavily-indebted Postal Service. Without assistance, the USPS would [...]
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Members of the Polish parliament are not taking the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) lying down. They’ve protested by appearing in parliament, holding cut-outs of the notorious Guy Fawkes mask in front of their faces in an obvious tribute to the hacktivist group known as Anonymous. Unfortunately for Poland, most members of the the European Union [...]
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