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The Senate will continue working its way through Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 appropriations bills this week, with final consideration of the Energy & Water bill expected on Tuesday.  The House will work through a number of legislative items, including...

Our weekly take on some of the biggest stories in startup and tech policy. House Unanimously Passes Email Privacy Act. On Wednesday, the House passed the widely supported, broadly bipartisan Email Privacy Act by a unanimous vote of 419-0. The bill makes...

By Sophia Cope On Wednesday, September 16, nine months into the 114th Congress, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on reforming the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), the federal law that regulates government access to private...

Dear Representative, We, the undersigned civil society organizations, companies and trade associations, write to express our support for the Email Privacy Act (H.R. 699). The Act updates the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), the law that...

CALENDAR: The House and Senate have both gone into recess. The Senate will return on Monday, May 9, while the House will return on Tuesday, May 10. LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR: The House returned last Monday, and immediately went to work on 19 bills...