FISA Surveillance Powers at Stake as Senate Deadline Approaches

tftc.io Senate leaders are in a race against time to come to a consensus on the reauthorization of a surveillance tool that has been the subject of heated debate due to its…

Down With Big Brother: Warrantless Surveillance Makes A Mockery Of The Constitution

zerohedge.com Down With Big Brother: Warrantless Surveillance Makes A Mockery Of The Constitution Authored by John and Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Whether he wrote DOWN…

Bank of America Finally Embroiled In Jeffrey Epstein Scandal

dealbreaker.com The nature of the financial services provided by the late, unlamented pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has long been somewhat mysterious. Certainly, his billionaire buddies and the…

House Passes Bill To Block Police From Purchasing Online Data

mediapost.com The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that would restrict the government's ability to purchase information about Americans' data -- including…

Revised Section 702 surveillance authority poses more danger than ever

reason.com At press time, the U.S. Senate is debating whether to not only renew the U.S. government's spying powers under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act…

Wyden says he’s ‘not in favor’ of Mnuchin purchasing TikTok as bill gains momentum

thehill.com Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said Thursday that he is “not in favor” of former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin participating in efforts to purchase TikTok as a bill that would…

Senate Can Stop Expansion Of Government Surveillance

zerohedge.com Senate Can Stop Expansion Of Government Surveillance Authored by Bob Goodlatte & Mark Udall via RealClear Wire, When the U.S. House passed the Reforming Intelligence and…

US Senate to vote on expanded Section 702 spying powers

theregister.com On Thursday the US Senate is expected to reauthorize the contentious warrantless surveillance powers conferred by Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act…

Biden opposes bill that would keep cops and feds from buying your data

reason.com A bipartisan group of lawmakers is once again trying to keep the government from performing an end run around the Fourth Amendment by buying people's personal data. This…

Schumer And Other Democrats Amplify Calls For Marijuana Reform Ahead Of 4/20, Which Congressman Says Should Be Celebrated ‘Every Day’

marijuanamoment.net Democratic senators, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), are “trying to recruit Republicans” to join them in the push for federal marijuana legalization,…

Supercharged Spying Provision Buried In "Terrifying" FISA 702 Reauthorization

zerohedge.com Supercharged Spying Provision Buried In "Terrifying" FISA 702 Reauthorization On Monday, the House finalized procedural business on a bill to reauthorize the nation's…

Impatience over stalled tax deal grows in Senate

thehill.com Supporters of a bipartisan tax deal that sailed through the House in January are growing impatient as the measure stalls in the Senate amid Republican opposition to the…

Bank of America's dealings with Leon Black and Jeffrey Epstein are in the Senate's crosshairs

aol.com None A Senate committee is asking Bank of America about payments from Leon Black to Jeffrey Epstein. • None The Senate is investigating tax avoidance strategies used by the…

Lawmakers Question Bank of America About Leon Black’s Payments to Epstein

nytimes.com A U.S. Senate committee investigating the tax avoidance work that Jeffrey Epstein, the registered sex offender, did for the private equity mogul Leon Black has questioned…

Social Security warning for millions of older Americans

newsweek.com Senators have warned that millions of senior Americans could be at risk of losing their Social Security payments if they default on student loan repayments. Democratic…

NSA "Just Days Away From Taking Over The Internet" Warns Ed Snowden

zerohedge.com NSA "Just Days Away From Taking Over The Internet" Warns Ed Snowden Authored by Tom Mitchelhill via CoinTelegraph.com, The United States National Security Agency (NSA) is…

Senate Republicans’ breathtaking cruelty is hidden in your tax returns

msnbc.com By the end of Monday, tens of millions of American families will have claimed their child tax credit on their 2023 tax returns. But for many families, that credit will be…

House Passes Bill to Ramp Up Section 702 Surveillance Powers

tftc.io The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which has sparked significant controversy and…

The Adderall Shortage: DEA versus FDA in a Regulatory War

marginalrevolution.com A record number of drugs are in shortage across the United States. In any particular case, it’s difficult to trace out the exact causes of the shortage but health care is…

House passes reauthorization of key U.S. surveillance program after days of upheaval over changes

pbs.org The House passed a bill Friday to reauthorize and provide sweeping reforms of a key U.S. government surveillance tool without including broad restrictions on how the FBI…

House nears reauthorization of U.S. spy program amid GOP pushback

pbs.org House Republicans on Friday advanced a bill that would reauthorize a crucial national security surveillance program, a second attempt just days after a conservative revolt…

Reauthorization of U.S. spy tool blocked by House conservative revolt

pbs.org A bill that would reauthorize a crucial national security surveillance program was blocked Wednesday by a conservative revolt, pushing the prospects of final passage into…

'On life support': Senate Republicans are prepared to sink the child tax credit bill

nbcnews.com WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are inching closer to burying a bipartisan bill to expand the child tax credit and provide breaks for businesses, issuing a series of demands…

Child tax credit warning over Senate delay

newsweek.com Republicans have been issued a warning over blocking a bill that would help reduce child poverty by a well-known progressive think tank. The Center on Budget and Policy…

White House, Senate Democrats unveil bill to battle pandemic aid fraud

washingtonpost.com Senate Democrats on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping, roughly $1.3 billion bill that would expand the federal government’s powers to find and prosecute pandemic fraud, as…

Column: Something for Biden to brag about

latimes.com It goes without saying that President Biden will take the podium for Thursday’s State of the Union address armed with facts and figures of all that he’s accomplished for the…