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InternetNews May 13, 2004 Roy Mark |
Senate Approves Tech Corporate Tax Break Legislation calls for one-year reduction in foreign dividend taxes from 35 percent to 5.25 percent. |
InternetNews March 5, 2004 Roy Mark |
Anti-Offshoring Fever in Senate Partisan bickering delays legislation to end EU trade penalty tariffs imposed this week on U.S. goods. |
InternetNews June 15, 2004 Roy Mark |
House Panel Approves Multinational Tax Break A controversial measure favored by IT firms moves to a vote of the full House. |
InternetNews October 25, 2004 Roy Mark |
Bush Signs Tech Tax Break President Bush signed into law late Friday $136 billion in corporate tax breaks, including a one-year reduction from 35 percent to 5.25 percent on foreign profits for U.S. multinationals. |
InternetNews October 11, 2004 Roy Mark |
Congress Gives Tax Break to Tech Industry The U.S. Senate approved today a one-year tax break backed by the tech industry that proponents say will repatriate more than $300 billion into the U.S. economy and create as many as a half million new jobs. |
InternetNews June 18, 2004 Roy Mark |
House Passes Pro-Tech Tax Breaks The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a corporate tax bill loaded with provisions favorable to the technology industry, including a reduction in foreign revenue taxes and an extension of the research and development tax credit. |
InternetNews March 9, 2004 Roy Mark |
U.S. Increasing Trade Pressure on China, India Offshoring grows as a hot-button issue as Baucus bashes Bangalore and U.S. Trade Representative Zoellick urges Congress to stay the free trade course. |
InternetNews September 24, 2004 Roy Mark |
Congress OKs Tech-Friendly R&D Tax Credit Technology consortium had pushed for the nearly $8 billion credits as key drivers for the industry. President Bush is expected to sign the legislation. |
InternetNews September 23, 2004 Roy Mark |
R&D Tax Credit Nears Congressional Approval Legislation could give U.S. businesses almost $8 billion in tax credits with 75 percent devoted to employee wages. |
InternetNews May 25, 2004 Roy Mark |
Tech Bills Face Protectionist Measures Anti-offshoring sentiments likely to continue in House after bitter Senate dispute blocked tech bill for months. |
InternetNews April 28, 2004 Roy Mark |
McCain Blasts Access Tax Ban Maneuvers Arizona senator calls an amendment to Internet access tax bill a 'parliamentary charade,' as the deadline for compromise looms. |
InternetNews June 28, 2006 Roy Mark |
Telecom Reform Debate Enters Third Day While delaying network neutrality vote, lawmakers deal with a vast array of amendments to overall bill. |
InternetNews November 1, 2004 Roy Mark |
Tech Lacks Traction in Presidential Race Pollsters, politicians and pundits have made it well known that the 2004 presidential race is tight for many reasons. But one thing is for certain: Technology policy is not one of them. |
InternetNews October 7, 2004 Roy Mark |
Congress Still Hot on Tech Agenda The House and Senate are battling to session's end on new Internet access tax moratorium and blocking stock option expensing. |
InternetNews March 26, 2004 Roy Mark |
Q&A: U.S. Sen. George Allen One of Congress' key technology players discusses Internet taxes, trade disputes, VoIP and government network security. |
InternetNews March 4, 2004 Roy Mark |
Tech Execs Work Washington for Tax Help With an agenda calling for free trade and tax cuts, John Doerr's CEO network presses the political flesh. |
Salon.com March 30, 2001 Jake Tapper |
McCain-Feingold seems a done deal After a dramatic final tussle, the first sweeping campaign reform since the 1970s seems ready to pass the Senate... |
Managed Care July 2001 Michael Levin-Epstein |
Tilt of Senate to Democrats Speeded Debate on Patients' Rights The Senate debate over the Patients' Bill of Rights made for great theater, but was the outcome ever in doubt? |
Salon.com March 20, 2001 Jake Tapper |
Campaign reform diary Day 1: A march, some speeches and a noble old lady. But the good vibes can't last. |
Salon.com March 23, 2001 Jake Tapper |
Campaign reform diary After senators come together to make a little Boy Scout's dreams come true, a warm glow fills the chambers. But darkness lurks... |
InternetNews April 27, 2004 Roy Mark |
New Maneuvers on Internet Access Ban Parliamentary maneuvering bottles McCain amendment for a four-year ban on taxing Internet connections. |
InternetNews June 28, 2006 Roy Mark |
Senate Panel Kills Net Neutrality After almost two hours of often contentious debate, the Senate Commerce Committee defeated a measure to insert controversial network neutrality provisions into the panel's ambitious telecom reform legislation. |
Salon.com March 22, 2001 Jake Tapper |
Campaign reform diary Day 3: A moist moment between Kennedy and Hatch and a no-bad-news day for McCain-Feingold, but there's an awfully eerie calm. |
InternetNews April 6, 2006 Roy Mark |
GOP Defeats Dem's Net Neutrality Moves House Republicans Wednesday strengthened net neutrality provisions in their working telecom reform legislation but turned back tougher measures demanded by Democrats. |
Salon.com March 27, 2001 Jake Tapper |
Poison Paul? Passed by the Senate, Paul Wellstone's amendment to McCain-Feingold could kill tough campaign finance reform this year. Do the Democrats really want to clean up politics? |
InternetNews April 30, 2004 Roy Mark |
Senate Approves Internet Access Tax Ban Compromise four-year measure is narrower in scope than ambitious House version. |
Salon.com May 24, 2001 Bruce Shapiro |
Will Trent Lott pay for losing the Senate? Angry GOP moderates say the White House and party right-wingers drove Jim Jeffords out of his own party... |
Salon.com March 21, 2001 Jake Tapper |
Campaign reform diary Day 2 of the Senate's debate over campaign finance reform. Even a mild-mannered amendment can be a "poison pill" in disguise. |
CIO June 15, 2004 Ben Worthen |
Regulations: What to Worry About As the offshoring debate heats up, CIOs are scrambling to meet the demands of current and pending legislation. Here's what's real, what's not and how to cope. |
InternetNews April 27, 2004 Roy Mark |
Senate Likely to Extend Net Access Tax Ban Urged by President Bush to permanently ban connection taxes, lawmakers are likely to extend new ban. |
InternetNews January 19, 2007 Roy Mark |
Senate: Write Away, Bloggers Republicans force changes in language calling for greater reporting requirements for grassroots groups and political bloggers. |
InternetNews November 18, 2005 Roy Mark |
Getting Along Over Tech? Just think what a little bipartisanship could actually accomplish for technology policy in this country. |
Salon.com May 24, 2001 Jake Tapper |
Why'd he do it? Sen. Jim Jeffords has had problems with his party for a long time, but President Bush appears to have pushed him over the edge... |
Geotimes May 2003 David Applegate |
Another Stab at Energy Legislation With Republicans now in control of both chambers, energy legislation is a top priority of the House and Senate leadership. |
Salon.com March 28, 2001 Jake Tapper |
It's in the Democrats' hands As the compromises on McCain-Feingold get pounded out, skeptics wonder if Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle is really willing to bend... |
InternetNews June 9, 2006 Roy Mark |
House K.O.'s Net Neutrality Legislative language to make the controversial concept of network neutrality the law of the land failed in the U.S. House of Representatives. |
InternetNews June 22, 2006 Roy Mark |
Senate Panel Delays Net Neutrality Vote Harried by time restraints, contentious Democrats and dozens of proposed amendments, the Senate Commerce Committee took a pass Thursday afternoon on network neutrality. |
InternetNews June 16, 2004 Roy Mark |
House Republicans Move to Protect Accenture Contract Procedural maneuvers likely to keep $10 billion DHS deal in hands of Bermuda-based computer services firm. |
InternetNews June 1, 2010 |
National Defense Act Creates Cybersecurity Post Plan to overhaul national cybersecurity infrastructure now includes the creating of a formal cybersecurity office in the White House. |
InternetNews June 30, 2006 Roy Mark |
Net Neutrality Supporters Find Hope in Tie Vote When is a loss a victory? In the U.S. Senate, apparently, according to network neutrality proponents. |
InternetNews March 7, 2011 |
House Dems Complain of Net Neutrality Process Minority subcommittee leadership appeals to their Republican counterparts to slow down the move to overturn the FCC's net neutrality order, seeks amendment debate. |
InternetNews January 28, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
House Expected to OK Billions for Broadband A House vote on the stimulus package is likely to fall along party lines, while Senate debate is seen as more conciliatory. |
Salon.com May 21, 2001 Jake Tapper |
The Kennedy compromise Conservatives might be screaming the loudest, but Democrats made their share of concessions in the House and Senate education bills... |
InternetNews June 1, 2010 |
Defense Bill Could Revise U.S. Cybersecurity House Democrats succeeded in attaching an amendment that would entail a dramatic overhaul of federal cybersecurity policies and procurement activities. |
BusinessWeek February 24, 2010 Paula Dwyer |
How the Political Gridlock in Washington Might End Anger at Washington and midterm elections are driving both parties to recalibrate their self-interest. A tentative bipartisanship is emerging. |
InternetNews December 26, 2006 Roy Mark |
New Leaders, Old Issues What's Next in Tech: Democratic lawmakers may put a new emphasis on network neutrality and data-privacy issues in 2007. |
InternetNews March 10, 2005 Roy Mark |
Senate: Stock Option Expensing Likely Tech industry claims new accounting rules will hurt profits and cripple employee incentives. |
InternetNews June 7, 2006 Roy Mark |
Net Neutrality Time on The Floor The moment of truth for network neutrality may arrive as early as tomorrow in the U.S. House of Representatives. |
InternetNews June 9, 2004 Roy Mark |
House Moves to Block $10B Accenture Deal An Appropriations Committee votes to bar DHS contracts to subsidiaries of foreign corporations. |
Registered Rep. May 20, 2010 Kristen French |
Senate Nears Vote On Financial Reform, Fiduciary Standard On Hold The Senate voted 60-40 Thursday to end weeks of debate on Christopher Dodd's financial regulatory reform legislation, in what is called a cloture vote. That clears the way for a final vote on the bill within 30 hours. |