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• Bachus probed for insider trading, but will Congress reforms go far enough?
10 Feb 2012 at 4:23pm
How serious is Congress about ending insider trading among members? On Thursday, the House passed legislation intended to crack down on the practice. And that turned out to be the very day the congressman in charge of regulating the nation's banking and financial-services industries acknowledged he's being investigated for possible insider trading. Since late last [...]

• For SEC, investigating insider trading in Congress presents complications
10 Feb 2012 at 8:06pm
Financial regulators have built an elaborate computer apparatus to scan stock markets for signs of insider trading , but the radar isn?t pointed at Congress. Instead, it is designed to detect more conventional forms of insider trading ? a corporate lawyer acting on advance word of a merger or an accountant leaking details about a company?s earnings . A senator who calls his broker after ...

• EDITORIAL: Congress needs to curb its insider trading
10 Feb 2012 at 7:07pm
Congress, which has a history of exempting itself from laws that others must follow, may finally agree that it shouldn't be involved in insider trading. But don't be surprised if members of Congress try to dodge insider trading laws by creating

• Get ready for another fight in Congress over payroll taxes
10 Feb 2012 at 4:24pm
Congress has until Feb.29 to agree to extend the payroll tax cut, or the tax will rise 2 percentage points to the original rate of 6.2 percent. The president signed a two-month extension of the tax cut in December, as part of a deal that also extended unemployment insurance and avoided a reduction in Medicare [...]

• Congress finds a new home in the doghouse
9 Feb 2012 at 5:30am
President Obama may be getting a little bump from some improved economic numbers. Congress? Not so much. It?s still setting records for how unpopular it is. A new Gallup poll shows Congress?s approval rating has actually hit a new low of 10 percent, despite some positive signs for the economy recently. Read full article >>

• Congress Demands Drones Over America
10 Feb 2012 at 2:55pm
Congress is demanding drones in the air over the United States - without considering the civil liberties issues.

• Congress fears defeat in UP assembly polls: BJP
11 Feb 2012 at 6:12am
New Delhi, Feb 11 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday said the Congress party feared defeat in the assembly elections that are taking place in Uttar Pradesh.

• Boehner vows Congress will reverse Obama birth control policy
8 Feb 2012 at 4:43pm
Congress this week plunged into fray over new Obama administration rules that will require religious employers to offer birth control in their health-insurance programs, even if contraception runs afoul of their religious doctrines.

• Bernanke urges Congress to address Bush tax cuts
7 Feb 2012 at 4:35pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Tuesday warned Congress that putting off a decision on the fate of expiring Bush administration tax cuts could unsettle businesses and households, undercutting the U.S. economic recovery. With presidential and congressional elections looming in November, many analysts think Congress is unlikely to act until the final months of the ...

• Mozilla, WordPress, 73 others urge Congress to kill SOPA and PIPA for good
7 Feb 2012 at 2:16pm
A mass online blackout protest in January successfully convinced Congress to pull the contentious anti-piracy bills, the ?Stop Online Piracy Act? (SOPA) and the ?PROTECT IP Act? (PIPA), from its agenda. But just because these pieces of legislation are down, there is still more work to do to make sure they never rise again.

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