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Trump and Congress prepare to tackle broadband expansion in 2018

Melissa Quinn · December 31, 2017 5:01 am

Congress faces an election-year calendar, but data-breach legislation seems likely to get attention starting this winter. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo., who chairs a House Financial Services subcommittee, is one congressman who hopes to roll out a breach-notification bill sometime in the first quarter of 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Cyber legislation is teed up for action in 2018, if Congress can find the time

Charlie Mitchell · December 26, 2017 5:01 am

Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., chairman of the Communications and Technology Subcommittee, introduced the Open Internet Preservation Act last week, just days after the Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal net neutrality. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Legislation revamping net neutrality rule faces uphill battle

Melissa Quinn · December 25, 2017 5:01 am

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell designated four deputies to work with his rank and file as the Senate Finance Committee drafted tax reform. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Mitch McConnell’s tactical adjustments to pass tax reform could be GOP blueprint in 2018

David M. Drucker · December 22, 2017 5:33 pm

Freedom Caucus former Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is one of several members of Congress objecting to adding Obamacare insurer payments to a must-pass spending bill, saying inserting them "would be a problem." (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

House Republicans ‘struggling’ with Obamacare bills

Robert King · December 19, 2017 11:36 pm

Republicans working on conferencing the House and Senate tax bills were still exchanging proposals between the two chambers Tuesday evening in anticipation of a public conference meeting on the bill Wednesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)

GOP eyes lower top individual rate, higher corporate rate in tax bill

Joseph Lawler · December 13, 2017 12:43 am

Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D-Conn., along with Rep. John Katko, R-N.Y, introduced two pieces of legislation in September to monitor the trucking industry for human trafficking and make sure offenders never drive professionally again. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Ending human trafficking in the trucking industry

Diana Stancy Correll · December 12, 2017 5:01 am

House Speaker Paul Ryan told radio show host Ross Kaminsky on Wednesday that he wants to revisit entitlement reform after tax reform is finished. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

House could be first up to tackle entitlement reform

Robert King · December 11, 2017 5:01 am

Fifty-three Republican representatives told House Speaker Paul Ryan and Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady to "seek an agreement in conference that achieves repeal of the hated and economically destructive death tax." (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

House Republicans pressure leaders to repeal estate tax in conference tax bill

Joseph Lawler · December 7, 2017 5:10 pm

Some legal analysts believe special counsel Robert Mueller is building a case against President Trump, others contend he's found nothing but proof of Trump's innocence and his probe is running amok. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Republicans express confidence in Robert Mueller probe as Trump fumes

David M. Drucker · December 7, 2017 5:01 am

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, was a critical vote in the early hours of Saturday morning. Collins came onboard for the GOP tax plan after promises from leadership that the Senate would bring a bipartisan bill to the floor known as Alexander-Murray. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republicans send Obamacare individual mandate repeal to conference

Kimberly Leonard and Robert King · December 2, 2017 6:53 am

Senate GOP was trying to negotiate a debt trigger to the tax reform bill, even as Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was moving toward setting up the first procedural vote. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Republicans scramble to negotiate debt trigger in tax bill as McConnell plans first vote

Joseph Lawler · November 29, 2017 7:47 pm