All posts tagged "Senator Ron Wyden"

(Reuters) - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden has asked the Obama administration why the United States failed to stop a tax-avoidance strategy used by hedge funds, including John Paulson's Paulson & Co, Bloomberg reported.

President Obama’s stated desire for an “open debate and democratic process” about the U.S. government’s surveillance activities met with open disbelief by a prominent former congressional staffer -- Jennifer Hoelzer, who recently left service as deputy chief of staff to Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) -- after the President's press conference on Friday.

Exclusive: Spy agency has secret backdoor permission to search databases for individual Americans' communications

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than a quarter of the Senate's members asked the top intelligence official on Friday to release more information on the government's bulk collection of data on Americans' communications.

Sen. Mark Kirk, a moderate Republican from Illinois, released a video on Thursday in support of legislation that would make it illegal to track and log the location of individual Americans without their consent.

For the last several months, two Democratic members of Congress have been asking the Department of Homeland Security/ICE to clarify the policy behind its seizures of the domain names of websites that are alleged to be involved in copyright violations. According to TorrentFreak.com, they've finally gotten a response, but it's not one that resolves any of their questions.