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Senate Committee Votes to Advance Major Tech Antitrust Bill
The bill has significant implications for Amazon, Apple and Google in particular.
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The Senate Will Get Its Best Shot at Regulating Big Tech, and Apple, Google and Amazon Are Already Playing Defense
The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to deliberate on the American Innovation and Choice Online Act on Thursday.
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2022 Will Be the ‘Do Or Die' Moment for Congress to Take Action Against Big Tech
Proposals to update competition law, establish online privacy rights and protect kids from harm on the internet have bipartisan support.
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PolitiFact: Inflation Costs to Consumers Are Real, With an Explanation
Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, a member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee and its former chairman, has tied inflation costing households an extra $175 a month to President Biden.
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Inflation Impacting Families
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reporting that pricing for goods, housing and energy all went up from August to September. NBC 6’s Phil Prazan teamed up with Politifact to find out just how much this increase in inflation will cost you.
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Klobuchar, Grassley to Lead Antitrust Bill Barring Big Tech From Disadvantaging Rivals
The American Innovation and Choice Online Act would prohibit dominant online platforms from engaging in discriminatory behavior.
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Repeal of the Cap on State and Local Tax Deduction Still in Play. Here's What to Watch
As the Senate approves a budget resolution, lawmakers may soon hammer out proposals to repeal the $10,000 limit on the deduction for state and local taxes.
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Congress Returns Facing Government Shutdown Deadline, Calls for Stimulus Amid Coronavirus Surge
Congress faces a Dec. 11 deadline to avoid a government shutdown, and has to decide whether to pass another coronavirus stimulus bill.
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Sen. Chuck Grassley Returns to Work After Positive Coronavirus Test and Quarantine
Sen. Chuck Grassley, 87, said he experienced no symptoms after testing positive for Covid-19 earlier this month.
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Sen. Rick Scott Tests Positive for Covid, Says He Has ‘Very Mild Symptoms' and Will Work From Home
The Florida Republican’s diagnosis comes three days after Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, announced his own coronavirus diagnosis.
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GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley, 87, Tests Positive for Coronavirus
Grassley, the president pro tempore of the Senate, isolated earlier Tuesday after he was exposed to the virus.
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Sen. Grassley, 87, Tests Positive for Coronavirus
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, third in the line of presidential succession, has tested positive for COVID-19.
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Senior GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley Says Biden Should Receive Classified Intelligence Briefings From Trump Administration
Trump has not conceded the race to Biden, whose transition efforts have been stymied by a key agency’s refusal to formally acknowledge him as the winner.
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Barrett Says She Gave No Commitment to White House, Senate on Any Rulings
Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett says she has given no pre-commitment on any ruling she may make to the White House or Senate.
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Grassley Vows to Block Trump Nominees Over Watchdog Firings
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley says he is blocking two Trump administration nominees until the White House provides adequate reasons for the recent termination of two inspectors general
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Grassley Cites NBC News Reports in Asking DHS to Monitor Visa Program for Fraud
A joint investigation by NBC News and KNTV — NBC’s Bay Area station — found that the F-1 visa program, which lets international students work at firms in the U.S. after graduation, appears to have been exploited by fake companies providing false employment verifications.
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Asked to Resign
The director of the agency overseeing legal entry into the United States, including through green cards and asylum, was asked to resign from the agency on Friday, according to a letter sent out to the agency and obtained by NBC News. L. Francis Cissna has served as President Donald Trump’s only director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, an agency...
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Trump Admin. Loses Another Appeal on Ending DACA
A federal appeals court ruled Friday the Trump administration acted in an “arbitrary and capricious” manner when it sought to end an Obama-era program that shields young immigrants from deportation. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2 to 1 that the Trump administration violated federal law when it tried to end the Deferred Action...
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‘Not Just Talking Points': Kushner's New Tack on Immigration
President Donald Trump’s White House hasn’t been known for its careful crafting of policy. But Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, has spent months drawing up a long-awaited immigration overhaul plan that the White House began to roll out Tuesday. Frustrated by congressional inaction and stinging Republican defeats, Kushner has been meeting with GOP groups and speaking with...
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Beto O'Rourke Apologizes for Teen Writings, ‘Ham-Handed' Rhetoric Toward Wife
Democratic presidential contender Beto O’Rourke on Friday acknowledged making mistakes as a teen and as a candidate, responding to criticism of his campaign rhetoric toward his wife as well as writings he produced online when he was young. During a taping of the “Political Party Live” podcast in Cedar Rapids, he addressed criticism of his campaign-trail joke that his wife,...