Zuckerberg PAC Launches New Immigration Ad
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s advocacy group unveiled a new ad pro-immigration reform ad yesterday that caps off a busy week of activities for FWD.us. The ad is called “Serve,” and features Alejandro...
View ArticleSilicon Valley Candidate Distances Himself From Tech CEOs
Tech CEOs love Ro Khanna. They love to give money to his campaign. They want him to be Silicon Valley's voice in the U.S. House of Representatives. So the story goes. You'd be hard pressed to find an...
View ArticleObama on Syria: ‘We Are Prepared to Strike Whenever We Choose’
One day after Barack Obama said the United States has an obligation as a world leader to respond to the suspected Aug. 21 chemical-weapons attack on Damascus, the president delivered a statement from...
View ArticleKerry on Syria: President Obama Is Not Asking America to Go to War
Secretary of State John Kerry discussed President Obama's plan for a military strike on Syria, testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday afternoon. Kerry presented what he...
View ArticleCongress Takes Step Toward Authorizing Attack on Syria
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted Wednesday to approve a resolution that would give President Barack Obama the ability to use military force in response to the Syrian government's reported...
View ArticleWatch Ted Cruz Read ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ on Senate Floor
Dr. Seuss made an appearance on the Senate floor on Tuesday, thanks to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. Cruz engaged in a 21-hour "filibuster" prior to a vote on a government spending bill which...
View ArticleTed Cruz Said These Words Most During His ‘Filibuster’
Sen. Ted Cruz just had a bonding experience with the English language. The Republican from Texas held the U.S. Senate floor for more than 21 hours straight, from about 2:40 p.m. Tuesday until...
View ArticlePending government shutdown, websites for the Library of Congress, FTC, &...
Capital photo via ShutterstockCapitolBoth political parties in the U.S. congress are currently at odds over the approval of next years budget, and if a compromise isn’t reached we could see the...
View ArticleFacebook: More Than 45M Mentions Of Government Shutdown This Week
The government may be shut down, but Facebook is still up and running, to the tune of more than 45 million interactions related to the issue this week, from more than 17 million users. continued… New...
View Article21 Funniest #HipsterCongress Tweets You Probably Haven’t Heard Of
Hipsters suffer blame for many of the world's problems, so why would the government shutdown be any different? The Twitter hashtag #HipsterCongress took off Tuesday as the shutdown entered its seventh...
View ArticleCongress Still Gets Paid During the Shutdown — Here’s How Much
The U.SCongress, as a whole, is making $2.95 every second. That's $177 a minute and more than $250,000 a day. And yes, it's still making that during the government shutdown it caused. When Steve...
View ArticleCongressman Van Hollen ‘Had No Idea’ He’d Be a YouTube Hit
Rep. Chris Van Hollen's most recent YouTube video has more views than his Maryland district has constituents. The Democratic congressman's video titled "The GOP's little rule change they hoped you...
View Article‘Twitter’s Favorite Mayor’ Cory Booker Elected to the U.S. Senate
Cory Booker will soon have more constituents than Twitter followers The Democrat mayor of Newark, N.J., is headed to the U.S. Senate to represent nearly 9 million New Jersey residents after beating...
View ArticleCongress shows bipartisan support for the ‘best patent troll-killing bill yet’
bgautreyYet another patent reform bill hit the House of Representatives floor yesterday, but this one might actually pass. The Innovation Act, sponsored by Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) is a comprehensive...
View ArticleBitcoin Goes to Washington: The Case for and Against Digital Currency
The era of Bitcoin may well be at hand. Not only has its value climbed to all-time highs in recent weeks but, for better or worse, Bitcoin has caught the U.S. government's attention. The digital...
View Article“Tower Dumps” Reveal Cellphone Activity of Innocent Americans
Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies conducting criminal investigations last year had access to the cellphone data of thousands of Americans not suspected of any crime. A congressional...
View ArticleMajor Tech Firms Create “Reform Government Surveillance” Coalitione
Eight tech giants including Facebook, Google, Apple and Twitter are urging the President, the United States Congress and world leaders to reform government surveillance laws and reassess intelligence...
View ArticleWhat Facebook, Seven Other Tech Giants Wrote To The U.S. Government On...
Facebook teamed up with AOL, Apple, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter, and Yahoo on An Open Letter to Washington regarding global government surveillance reform, urging governments around the world...
View ArticleA Politician Just Joined Snapchat and It’s Not Anthony Weiner
We already knew Rand Paul was a fan of long form. Now he's taking a stab at a more phantasmal form of communication — Snapchat. The Republican U.S. Senator from Kentucky signed up for the popular yet...
View ArticleMembers of Congress Pose With ‘Duck Dynasty’ Star
Even members of U.S. Congress aren't above posing for photos with celebrities. Some of the men and women who represent American citizens in the federal government took time before U.S. President...
View ArticleNew Legislation Could Save Net Neutrality — For Now
Democrats in both houses of Congress have introduced new legislation to protect net neutrality, at least for the time being Rep. Henry Waxman and Rep. Anna Eshoo, both of California, proposed what...
View Article‘American Idol’ Runner-Up Clay Aiken Tweets Bid for Congress
Clay Aiken, who finished as runner-up on American Idol season two in 2003, announced his candidacy for Congress on Twitter and in a YouTube video on Wednesday The nearly 5-minute clip explains why...
View ArticleOne year later and finally some progress on legally unlocking cell phones
About this time last year, an small uproar was sweeping over the Internet thanks to action taken by the Library of Congress to make unlocking cell phones illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright...
View ArticleCIA’s Senate Ally Accuses Agency of Spying on Congress
The Central Intelligence Agency may have just lost one of its closest allies on Capitol Hill Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who has long been one of the most staunch defenders of the U.S....
View ArticleSenate Climate All-Nighter Long on Talk, Short on Action
A majority of Senate Democrats, with the notable exception of several senators who are facing tough re-election fights in November, pulled an all-nighter on Monday to highlight the dangers of global...
View ArticleOne of us! This hacker is running for Congress to fight for tech innovators
Above: Dave Cole is running against some stiff competition in South New JerseyImage Credit: Cole for CongressDavid Cole believes that hackers need more representation in Congress. So the 28 year old, a...
View ArticleAn open source success: EFF ‘awed’ by response to project for easily...
Image Credit: Illustration by Eric Blattberg / VentureBeatContacting your Congressperson is about to get a lot simpler. On Tuesday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation called on hackers to revolutionize...
View ArticleSocial Media Newsfeed: Tweeting in Congress | Facebook Referral Traffic
Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Congressional Republicans are Winning at Twitter in 2014 (The Washington Post) I recently scraped together summary Twitter data –...
View ArticleCongress accomplishes something — makes government more transparent
Image Credit: peasap/FlickrIf you were playing a drinking game where you did a shot every time Congress passed a bill, you’d be more sober than Brigham Young frat party. But yesterday, American...
View ArticleSilicon Valley candidate wins key endorsement from San Francisco paper
Image Credit: Ro Khanna campaign imageSome key investors in Silicon Valley are hoping to unseat a congressman who, by all accounts, is pretty friendly to their goals. It’s a long shot — as is any...
View ArticleCongress to NSA: The unlimited mass data collection stops now
Above: Flickr User Sean MacEnteeImage Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/smemon/5250266050/sizes/z/A bill to end the National Security Agency’s mass collection of telephone records passed...
View ArticleClay Aiken’s Primary Opponent Found Dead
The man who ran against former American Idol star Clay Aiken in a North Carolina congressional primary is dead, the Courier-Tribune reports. Keith Crisco, 71, was found dead in his home, a...
View ArticleThere goes hope for NSA reform — at least this year
Above: Flickr User JeepersMediaImage Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeepersmedia/14149832071/sizes/lLast night, privacy advocates’ one guiding star in the darkness of mass surveillance reform...
View ArticleRepublicans Delete Digital Praise of Bowe Bergdahl Release
At least three prominent Republicans appeared to offer praise on Twitter for the rescue of American POW Bowe Bergdahl — only to later backtrack, scrubbing their tweets or websites of any mention of...
View Article12 Theories Why Eric Cantor Lost to an Unknown Economics Professor
Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his seat in a shocking GOP primary upset for Virginia's 7th congressional district on Tuesday night, with economics professor Dave Brat beating him by...
View ArticleEric Cantor Steps Down as House Majority Leader After Stunning Primary Loss
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) reflected on his shocking primary defeat and announced he was stepping down as House majority leader Wednesday afternoon. "While I intend to serve out my term as a member of...
View ArticleProfessors Vying for Cantor’s Seat Get Rave Reviews From Students
In the tiny town of Ashland, Virginia, the most exciting thing to usually happen at Randolph Macon College is the loud train that blows through campus every thirty minutes On Tuesday night, that all...
View ArticleBad News: Trust in Media Tanks, But Good (?) News is Congress Scores Worse
The news media — that bastion of information, the fourth estate, the guardian of truth — is suffering a trust deficit. According to a poll of just over one thousand U.S. adults conducted by Gallup in...
View ArticleCongressional Wikipedia Users Make the Darndest Edits
A Twitter bot that watches for anonymous Wikipedia edits from a range of Congressional IP addresses lit up with activity on Monday as somebody — we don’t know who — made unusual changes to 13...
View ArticleU.S. Senator Patrick Leahy’s latest privacy bill culls NSA surveillance
Above: A photo composition of National Security Agency headquarters in Maryland, U.S.Image Credit: Wikipedia & Harrison Weber / VentureBeatNOTE: GrowthBeat -- VentureBeat's provocative new...
View ArticleU.S. Senate reports that companies are cramming customer bills with obscene...
A new study conducted by the United States Senate Commerce Committee found that owners of mobile phones have been wrongly overcharged with bills. This is from cramming, which is the application of...
View ArticleUS Congress Blocked from Editing Wikipedia, Again
Earlier this summer, Wikipedia blocked congressional computers from editing pages on the site for 10 days. This week brought news of yet another ban, thanks to controversial edits made from an IP...
View ArticleNational Weather Service Beset by String of High-Profile Website Failures
Over the past two years, the National Weather Service — the agency tasked with issuing life-saving severe weather watches and warnings across the country — has had a bevy of technical glitches that...
View ArticleFrom DJs to CEOs: the meteoric rise of Global #Webit Congress
Image Credit: Webit CongressGlobal #Webit Congress, one of the more influential tech events on the global conference calendar, attracts over 10,000 attendees from more than 110 countries. It brings...
View ArticleThe History of U.S. Immigration Policy Explained in 2 Minutes
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) suggested in Sept. 2014 that Congress might work on immigration reform the following year — if President Barack Obama enforced current laws and didn't act on it...
View ArticleMIDTERM ELECTIONS: What Are Candidates Posting About on Facebook, and How Often?
The Facebook Data Science Team conducted a detailed analysis of candidates for governor, the House of Representatives and the Senate in next month’s midterm elections, examining some 150,000 posts that...
View ArticleSilicon Valley deserves a congressman who actually gets things done. Go vote....
Image Credit: Flickr user Vox EfxTomorrow, citizens of the 17th Congressional District will go to the polls and decide the fate of representative democracy in Silicon Valley. As longtime incumbent Rep....
View Article9 ways the 2014 midterm elections made history
The 2014 midterm election was one for the history books The Republicans captured control of the Senate on Tuesday, but there were also many other notable results that came out of the election Let's...
View ArticleUber beat out taxis this election season among Congressional workers
Politicians and their staffs love Uber, which seems like a good thing for the future of ride-sharing apps Congressional campaign staffers used Uber 61% of the time when they took a trip for less than...
View ArticleThe 10 most interesting new members of Congress
You probably know the newly elected senators — or you've at least heard their names. But what about the rest of the politicians voted into office last week? Hundreds of elections took place across the...
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