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Tech stocks dive as US bailout fails
News The House voted down the $700bn (£390bn) plan, 228 to 205, with two-thirds of Republicans and a significant number of Democrats casting 'no' votes. Democrats, meanwhile, blamed Republicans. Pelosi, a California Democrat, said she will try and reach...
[September 30, 2008, 10:40]
Politicians propose punitive solution to loss of US jobs
News A new bill, drafted by Socialist legislator Bernard Sanders and backed by a few dozen Democrats and Republicans, would slap limits on federal grants to companies that fire US workers and hire replacements abroad.
[March 4, 2004, 7:30]
US Congress votes for net neutrality
News All 14 Democrats on the committee (joined by 6 Republicans) supported the measure, while 13 Republicans opposed it. Often the House leadership, in this case the Republicans, will try to meld similar proposals together into one package before a...
[May 26, 2006, 9:10]
US takes major step towards patent reform
News The vote and the tenor of the preceding debate were not strictly partisan, reflecting the issue's complexity: 60 Republicans joined the 160 Democrats who approved the bill, while 58 Democrats joined the 117 Republicans rejecting it.
[September 10, 2007, 11:43]
House rejects net neutrality rules
News Republicans represented most of the opposition. Defenders of the COPE Act, largely Republicans, dismissed worries about net neutrality as fear mongering. But in a last-minute compromise designed to placate key Republicans, the House leadership...
[June 12, 2006, 10:05]
Microsoft on Trial: After tech hearings, now what?
News McClure said the hearing was prompted by Republicans eager to make political hay out of the industry's disputes with the Clinton Administration on issues such as encryption. The Republicans planned it to be a partisan blowout, and (Microsoft Corp.
[June 18, 1999, 11:15]
How the Democrats' win affects tech
News House Democrats cast 62 votes against the 2001 Patriot Act, but only three Republicans opposed it. Republicans, now stalwart defenders of the Patriot Act, were advocates of protecting privacy during President Clinton's time in office.
[November 10, 2006, 10:20]
Weighing Bush's mixed technology legacy
News Yet even with the new White House Council, the lack of technology expertise within the administration was.apparent from the beginning, said Black, who is listed as giving money to Hillary Clinton, Bill Richardson and the Democratic Congressional...
[January 20, 2009, 12:37]
T.J. Rodgers: It's all about what's best for business
News The Democrats also accuse the Republicans of cosying up to business. The Republicans are supposed to be a party of free trade and economic freedom. Corporate welfare is a sacred cow for the Democrats as well as the Republicans.
[May 19, 2004, 11:55]
SP2 to be forced out
Talkback I think microsoft made a deal with the republicans, so they wouldn't break up microsoft.
[March 7, 2005, 21:43]
Congress critical of Homeland Security's tech efforts
News In what has become a familiar refrain, a chorus of Republicans and Democrats — all from the US House of Representatives panel on telecommunications and the Internet — urged the agency to get its act together and appoint a long-awaited...
[September 14, 2006, 8:55]
Congress isn't swallowing Carnivore
News Both Republicans and Democrats raised repeated concerns about how the FBI's email surveillance software operates. Officials from the FBI and the US Department of Justice faced a sceptical -- and at times downright hostile -- House Judiciary...
[July 25, 2000, 9:01]
US Report: Immigration battle looms for hi-tech staff
News Proposed legislation to increase the number of foreign high-tech workers allowed to enter the United States has been championed by technology companies, but faces opposition on Capitol Hill from a strange-bedfellows coalition of pro-labour...
[September 21, 1998, 7:57]
US Report: Immigration battle looms for hi-tech staff
News Proposed legislation to increase the number of foreign high-tech workers allowed to enter the United States has been championed by technology companies, but faces opposition on Capitol Hill from a strange-bedfellows coalition of pro-labour...
[September 22, 1998, 7:57]
A Year Ago: Immigration battle looms for hi-tech staff
News Proposed legislation to increase the number of foreign high-tech workers allowed to enter the United States has been championed by technology companies, but faces opposition on Capitol Hill from a strange-bedfellows coalition of pro-labour...
[September 20, 1999, 7:00]
.XXX gets pulses racing
Talkback xxx should have sailed through and been released very quickly but now the republicans can continue getting off on what they produce and collect the rewards for a while longer. .xxx is so much easier to block.
[August 16, 2005, 21:40]
Jesse Berst: McNealy's Gates envy could kill Sun
News Dumber than Republicans passing off Ken Starr as an independent counsel? Obsession and personal animosity make people do strange and stupid things. Latest example: Scott McNealy is on the verge of moving his company off course -- and smack into a...
[August 24, 1999, 9:34]
Microsoft urges Congress to reconsider bailout
News The House voted down the $700bn (£390bn) bailout plan by a vote of 228 to 205, with 133 Republicans and 95 Democrats casting 'no' votes. Following the massive Wall Street sell-off, Microsoft on Monday called on Congress to revisit its bailout...
[September 30, 2008, 11:18]
Keep Internet out of UN control, says US
News Similar support has already come from both senior Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. A new resolution introduced in the U.S. Senate offers political backing to the Bush administration by slamming a United Nations effort to exert more influence...
[October 19, 2005, 10:05]
US Congress wades into Internet control row
News The letter was signed by two Republicans and two Democrats, including Joe Barton, chairman of the House committee on energy and commerce, and Fred Upton, chairman of the subcommittee on telecommunications and the Internet.
[October 10, 2005, 16:40]
