Orrin Hatch

Oil company executives traveled to Washington, D.C. Thursday morning for a Senate Finance Committee hearing on whether a set of federal tax breaks for their firms should be repealed, as industry profits and gas prices both remain high. The committee...

In the last decade, the top five oil companies have seen their profits soar to nearly a trillion bucks. So, Washington democrats say it might be time to put the brakes on their tax breaks. In a quote from his state of the union address president Obama...

WASHINGTON  — Some of the states that have drained their unemployment insurance funds are cutting the number of weeks that a laid-off worker can count on those benefits. Legislators are trying to limit tax increases for businesses to replenish the...

Hollywood studios gave two thumbs up Monday for a new federal bill that aims to crack down on the widespread problem of Internet piracy. The bill, introduced Monday by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) and senior Republican........

Warning of the perils of "illegal profiteers," Hollywood's labor unions are rallying behind a federal bill aimed at stopping the global spread of online piracy. Unions representing directors, actors and technical crews WEdnesday strongly voiced support...

Also, Ayad Allawi, Maria Shriver, Liz Cheney, Sens. Lindsey Graham, Claire McCaskill and John Cornyn and Howard Dean....

Maybe lawmakers had just read the news that 25% of the new Harry Potter movie had leaked out on the Internet: Hollywood's efforts to curb the spread of online piracy just got a boost in Washington. The Senate Judiciary Committee......

Sen. Bob Casey had about $1.3 million on hand at the end of 2010, according to an analysis by the Washington Post of Democratic senators up for re-election in 2012. The cash puts Casey right in the middle of his......

On the final day* of our piracy Dust-Up, Harold Feld, legal director of Public Knowledge, and Andrew Keen, advisor to Arts and Labs, discuss the impact of illegal downloading on the economy and the arts through the lens of copyright......

(Wednesday morning: Read story on this issue in the big paper here.) Republican Pat Toomey joined a list of the Senate's more conservative Republicans in introducing legislation aimed at weakening unions through a national law that would ensure joining a....

UPDATE Thursday 9am: The news conference has been postponed likely until after next week's recess. U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey and four additional Republicans, including two in leadership positions, will announce their plans to offer a balanced budget...

Sen. Orrin Hatch: 'Justice Department moving forward on BCS' Sen. Orrin Hatch was on FOX Business today and he spoke about several things including the BCS and the recent move by the Justice Department to question the NCAA on a college football playoff......