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Orrin Hatch

H-1B Visas to Have Their Day in Committee

Fawn Johnson | May 13, 2013
The tech community will have its first chance Tuesday to weigh in, carefully, on major immigration legislation being debated in the Senate. The influential lobbying force that has for years scrambled for access to highly skilled foreign workers must now carry out a rough balancing act: making sure lawmakers know that the bill, as written, does not work for it, but that it doesn’t want to kill the process, either.
hollywood LA

The New Urban Brand War: A Top-Level Domain for Every City on Earth

Henry Grabar - The Atlantic Cities | May 2, 2013
Craving a slice in Istanbul? Check out www.pizza.istanbul. Need a taxi in Tokyo? Try www.taxi.tokyo.
Linda Bloss-Baum

Bloss-Baum Pushes for Artists' Rights in Her New Public-Affairs Firm

Christopher Snow Hopkins | April 29, 2013
As lawmakers mulled legislation to safeguard the rights of performing artists in 2010, two musicians sat in the office of then-Rep. Charlie Gonzalez, D-Texas, hopeful that he would support the bill.
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Why We Need to Move Ahead on IP

Ajit Pai | April 24, 2013
When it comes to communications technology, federal regulations shouldn’t discourage innovation. They have to keep up with the times.
First Solar Manufacturing Plant

Manufacturers Focus on Reforming Tax Code and Reducing Barriers to Trade

Catherine Hollander | April 17, 2013
Manufacturers are, naturally, the biggest stakeholders in the committee’s discussion of improving the manufacturing sector.
Charles Chuck Grassley

Divide Emerges Among Immigration-Reform Opponents

Rebecca Kaplan | April 16, 2013
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee who have protested the speed and secrecy of the work of the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” are far from united in a strategy to slow or kill the immigration-reform bill—or even on whether that’s the plan at all.
bob goodlatte

Forget Working Groups, House Judiciary Moving Immigration on its Own

Rebecca Kaplan | April 15, 2013
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., isn’t interested in waiting on immigration.
bob goodlatte

The House Member Who Can Change the Internet

Brian Fung | April 11, 2013
Often overlooked on tech issues, Rep. Bob Goodlatte has a quiet approach that masks his power.

National Security Insiders: Obama Can't Bring Israelis and Palestinians to Negotiating Table

Sara Sorcher | March 18, 2013
President Obama is headed to the Holy Land this week, but 72 percent of National Journal's National Security Insiders are not optimistic he can bring Israelis and Palestinians to the negotiating table anytime soon.
Jeb Bush

Previewing the Sunday Shows

Christopher Peleo-Lazar | March 8, 2013
Sen. Rand Paul's, R-Ky., 13-hour filibuster is sure to be a hot topic on the Sunday shows this weekend, though Paul himself does not currently appear in the lineup for any of the programs. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, meanwhile, will be on six Sunday shows, pulling off a bilingual "Full Ginsburg." He'll be on "Meet the Press," "Face the Nation," "Fox News Sunday," "This Week," "State of the Union" and Univision's "Al Punto." Bush will talk about his new book, as well as the challenges surrounding immigration and, of course, his potential presidential aspirations. Check out the full listings after the jump.
Leahy

That Was Quick: Now There's Legislation on Cell-Phone Unlocking

Brian Fung | March 5, 2013
From the beginning, White House petitioners looking to keep phone-unlocking legal have insisted that they want Congress’ help. Barely a day after their first victory, in which the Obama administration expressed support for unlocking, they got more good news: Congress is paying attention.
dna

What Is a Gene And How Does it Apply to the Law? The Supreme Court Still Doesn't Know.

Brian Resnick | March 1, 2013
DNA was  discovered 60 years ago this week, and since then it's been muddling up the legal system.
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Security Insiders: Sequestration Most Likely Scenario

Sara Sorcher | February 11, 2013
Sequestration is now the most likely scenario, according to 78 percent of National Journal's National Security Insiders, who are not optimistic that Congress and the White House will reach a deal to reduce the deficit by the March 1 deadline.
Cody Wilson

Welcome to the Future: Congress Takes on 3-D Printing

Ben Schreckinger | February 10, 2013
Congress is being forced into the brave new world of 3-D printing.
Patrick Leahy

Pronouncements Out of the Way, Immigration Now Faces Uphill Climb

Rebecca Kaplan and Chris Frates | January 30, 2013
The outlines of the coming immigration debate have been set but now lawmakers must hunker down and write legislation. And that process could be a long one.
Patrick Leahy

Leahy to Boehner: Get Your Own House in Order

Rebecca Kaplan | January 18, 2013
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy had some choice words in response to an announcement by House Speaker John Boehner that the House of Representatives would predicate a long-term debt-limit increase on the Senate passing a budget that cuts spending. Another incentive from the Republican leader: No budget from the Senate, no paychecks for the senators.
Pills move through a precision weighing machine

Lipitor Fights Back

Margot Sanger-Katz | December 1, 2011
Pfizer’s strategy to fend off competition from generics may be paving a path for the pharmaceutical industry.
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