US Senate
Biden taps ex-Pentagon official for key China tech position
Joe Biden has nominated Alan Estevez, a former Pentagon official and Washington insider to be the US Commerce Department’s undersecretary for industry and security, a key pos...
US senators propose 25% tax credit for semiconductor manufacturing
A bipartisan group of US senators have proposed a 25% tax credit for investments in semiconductor manufacturing as Congress works to increase US chip production.
Amazon and Google lead US Senate panel antitrust hearing witness list
Executives from Google and Amazon.com head the list of witnesses for a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee next week, along with an executi...
US Senate passes sweeping bill to address China tech threat
The US Senate voted 68-32 on Tuesday to approve a sweeping package of legislation intended to boost the country’s ability to compete with Chinese technology.
US Senate advances sweeping tech bill taking aim at China
The US Senate has advanced a sweeping package of legislation intended to boost the country’s ability to compete with Chinese tech, as Congress increasingly seeks to take a to...
US senators propose limiting social media platforms liability shield
Three senators have introduced a bill that would limit Section 230, an existing law that shields online platforms from liability over the content posted by users, and make the comp...
Platform CEO’s will testify before US Senate committee
The CEO’s of Facebook, Twitter and Google have agreed to voluntarily testify in a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee on October the 28th about an integral law prote...
US Senate votes to extend government surveillance tools
The United States Senate comfortably has approved a 2-1/2-year extension of parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), two months after the divisive provisions allo...