Top Solyndra executives are not going to testify before Congress about the federal government's backing of the failed solar power company.
If you use mobile data services outside your wireless carrier's network coverage area, you could get a nasty surprise in your bill.
Lab tests found hundreds of cases of salmonella contamination at an Iowa farm in a nearly two-year period before the outbreak that prompted a massive recall of eggs this summer, congressional investigators said Tuesday.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee requested documents and information Monday from Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms of Iowa related to the recent salmonella outbreak and egg recalls, according to a news release from the office of the committee's chairman, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California.
British commentators and media have been split by the performance of BP boss Tony Hayward before a Congressional committee investigating the Gulf Coast oil disaster.
BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward, slated to face an angry Congress Thursday, will strike an emotional plea to Gulf residents, acknowledging the loss of life and reminding them of the company's long standing commitment to the region.
What did BP know about its troubled Gulf of Mexico well and when did they know it?
BP is considering suspending or cutting its second-quarter dividend amid U.S. political pressure, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
Adm. Thad Allen, the retired Coast Guard commandant overseeing the response to BP's oil spill, sent a letter to Chief Executive Tony Hayward demanding more information on compensation provided to people affected by the disaster.
Battered BP CEO, Tony Hayward, has been summoned to testify before U.S. lawmakers next week, according to a letter released Tuesday.
The damaging effects of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will be felt all the way to Europe and the Arctic, a top scientist told a congressional panel Friday.
Some of the largest fish in the Gulf Coast are now threatened by oil. CNN's Rob Marciano reports.
CNN's Poppy Harlow has an update on how one Toyota dealer is handling the high number of repairs.
Texas Rep. Joe Barton's BCS-busting bill made its way out of subcommittee Wednesday.
Net neutrality supporters may be celebrating the Federal Communications Commission's unanimous vote Thursday to begin developing open Internet regulation, but the battle is far from over as the yet-to-be-written regulation is already facing Congressional opposition and will also likely be challenged in court.
A key House committee passed comprehensive health care reform legislation Friday, moving President Obama's domestic priority one step closer to congressional approval.
A lot was supposed to happen on health reform before Congress went on summer vacation. Turns out, a lot didn't. End result: The heavy lifting on health reform legislation has been pushed to the fall.
A group of fiscally conservative House Democrats announced Wednesday they reached a deal with the chamber's Democratic leaders on a health care reform bill.
The effort to delay next month's scheduled death of analog television suffered a setback in Congress on Wednesday, despite warnings that millions of American homes will not be able to see broadcast shows in three weeks.
Overcoming partisan divisions, the Senate on Monday night unanimously voted to delay the digital television transition until June 12.
Yahoo Inc. will let its Web visitors decline ads targeted to their browsing habits, becoming the latest Internet company to break from a common industry practice as Congress steps up scrutiny of customized advertising and consumer privacy
Troubled by the tainted tomato scare, nearly half of Americans are concerned they may get sick from eating contaminated food and are avoiding items they normally would buy, an Associated Press-Ipsos poll has found
Near-record oil prices could quickly fall by half if Congress were to rein in speculators, according to testimony Monday from a hedge fund manager and oil company adviser on Capitol Hill.
In his first public testimony since his company's product became the subject of the largest meat recall in U.S. history, the president of Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. acknowledged Wednesday that at least two "downer" cows depicted in hidden-camera videos appeared to have entered the U.S. food supply.
President Bush on Wednesday signed a sweeping energy bill that he said would help the country become "stronger, cleaner and more secure."
President Bush and Speaker Pelosi spar over a popular children's health insurance bill.
Verizon Communications says it has provided federal, state and local law enforcement agencies tens of thousands of communication and business records relating to customers based on emergency requests without a court order or administrative subpoena.
Verizon Communications says it has provided -- tens of thousands of times -- communication and business records relating to customers to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies that made emergency requests without a court order or administrative subpoena.
Mattel and its CEO will face questions from House and Senate panels in the coming weeks about procedures for alerting federal regulators about hazardous toys and the problems of recalls of products made in China, according to a published report.
Heads of the world's largest auto companies said Wednesday they are ready to work with lawmakers to cut greenhouse gas emissions but stopped well short of endorsing calls to raise fuel economy standards drastically.
Lawmakers are looking into a stock option transaction Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd made amid an internal investigation into the company's controversial leak probe.
Hewlett-Packard Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd and recently ousted chairman Patricia Dunn are set to express regret to a House committee Thursday over the methods used in the company's leak investigation, but they also will seek to distance themselves from tactics used, according to their prepared testimony.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee released prepared testimony from former Hewlett-Packard chairman Patricia Dunn and chief executive Mark Hurd Wednesday ahead of a hearing on the company's controversial spying program.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee said Wednesday it subpoenaed five private investigators to testify at a hearing on Hewlett-Packard's leak probe.
When embattled HP chairman Mark Hurd steps before a US House panel on Thursday, he will be walking into a bipartisan buzz-saw of lawmakers worried about privacy and stunned that a company they once considered a prominent advocate of federal privacy protection for consumers would snoop on reporters and its own employees.
House Speaker Dennis Hastert is set to talk with the head of the oil industry's trade group about energy prices and profits in the wake of record corporate profit reported this week at Exxon Mobil.
Rep. Jim Greenwood, a six-term moderate Republican up for re-election in November, has told GOP leaders he will leave Congress at the end of his term, sources told CNN.
For years, consumers who wanted to download movies had to use illicit peer-to-peer networks, chase fleeting offshore operations such as IWantTV.com, or put up with onerous restrictions on sites like MovieLink and CinemaNow.
Bowing to pressure from Democrats, a leading Republican lawmaker who had played a key role in crafting prescription drug legislation has ended talks to become the top lobbyist for the pharmaceutical industry, his spokesman said Thursday.
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