House Suspends Hill Telecom License
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House leaders have suspended a multimillion-dollar wireless communications license that federal prosecutors say was corruptly awarded to a Dulles telecommunications firm by Rep. Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio) in exchange for gifts from lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
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House of Representatives approval means most American consumers will continue seeing tax-free Internet connection bills. President Bush is expected to sign off before current law expires this week.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on  Wednesday overwhelmingly passed legislation to hike fines to as  much as $500,000 on broadcasters and entertainers who violate  decency limits on the air.
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House Democrats have canceled plans for nearly &#36;1 million in advertising on two House races in New Hampshire, several weeks after signaling they would mount a strong challenge against both of the state's incumbent Republican lawmakers.
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Republicans quickly retracted a news release Thursday that accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of violating copyrights of C-SPAN, the cable channel that televises House and Senate proceedings.
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Amid deep and growing divisions among Senate Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) last night abruptly withdrew legislation that would have changed surveillance law and granted the nation's telecommunications companies retroactive immunity from lawsuits charging they had violated...
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The House has given final congressional approval to a bill that bans state and local governments from taxing Internet connections for the next three years.
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By Justin Hyde WASHINGTON  - Three of the nation's dominant local telephone companies said on Thursday that they had seen a sharp drop-off in new residential lines leased to competitors since AT&T Corp.  announced a retreat from residential service in July due to changing federal rules.
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U.S. communications regulators on  Tuesday exempted Internet telephone services from certain state  oversight, a boon for Vonage Holdings Corp. and other providers  aggressively pushing the new service.
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A Web-based information broker has been ordered to stop selling telephone records without owners' consent and to turn over nearly $200,000 in profits.
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US communications regulators on Tuesday exempted Internet telephone services from certain state oversight, a boon for Vonage Holdings Corp.
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Congress is adjourning without passing a much-debated broadband bill or strengthening Net neutrality rules, leaving it to  the Democrat-controlled legislature to pick up the proposals.
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Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON &#8212; House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) was unanimously rebuked by the ethics committee Wednesday for involving a federal agency in a Texas partisan matter and staging a fundraiser in a way that appeared to link access to the congressman with political donations.
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Congress acted yesterday to block state and local governments from taxing connections that link consumers to the Internet for the next three years.
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The US Congress on Friday reinstated a ban on Internet access taxes after the House of Representatives agreed to extend it for another three years rather than make it permanent.
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The U.S. House of Representatives  defied President Bush on Thursday and voted to block his  administration's controversial new overtime regulations for  white-collar workers. The vote was 223-193.
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The fundraising organization that helped vault former Rep. Tom DeLay to Republican leadership ranks in the House and distributed election money to numerous Republicans has been fined for campaign finance violations and is shutting down.