Congress

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies during a hearing of the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Selection Subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis on June 22, 2021 on Capitol Hill, Washington.Graeme Jennings | Swimming pool |…

WASHINGTON - When the country's antitrust laws were created more than a century ago, they were aimed to conquer industries like big oil.But tech giants like Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Apple, which dominate e-commerce, social networks,…

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on weekdays.There was so much screaming at first. And now action is taken. (May be.)The bad mood over the power of big tech companies has a new and…

The executives of the largest banks in the country begin on Wednesday before the Senate Banking Committee with two days of congressional testimony.Legislators will hear from Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, Charles Scharf of Wells Fargo, Jane…

Critics of government regulations warned that it is not just tech companies who have to maneuver through the patchwork of rules. "This creates confusion for consumers," said Daniel Castro, vice president of the Information Technology &…

Daniel Acker / Bloomberg via Getty ImagesCongress could soon offer unemployed Americans a tax break. States cannot be so generous.The Senate on Saturday passed a $ 1.9 trillion Covid Relief Act that waived taxation of up to $ 10,200 per…

President Joe Biden arrives at Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base in Houston, Texas, United States on February 26, 2021.Jonathan Ernst | ReutersPresident Joe Biden told Congress on Saturday that the air strikes he ordered this week in…

Mark Makela | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesAmericans may get another dose of extra unemployment benefits - and policymakers are debating how best to deliver it.A large number of legislators and economists would like to put help on the…

Keith Gill, the former director of wellness education at MassMutual, who campaigned for GameStop stock in his spare time, is ready to tell a House committee on Thursday that he has never offered any investment advice for a fee and “has no…

The Library of Congress is launching an initiative to expand its collection, promote the diversity of future librarians and archivists, and make it easier for members of minority groups to search the library's digital archives.The program…