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On Friday, Senator Harry Reid postponed next Tuesday’s vote on the Protect IP Act (PIPA). (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Caving to a massive campaign by Internet services and their millions of users, Congress indefinitely postponed legislation Friday to stop online piracy of movies and music costing U.S. companies billions of dollars every year. Critics said the bills would result in censorship and stifle Internet innovation. (more)

Sen, Harry Reid, who is expected to bring Protect IP to the Senate floor on January 24, might have a $3.5 million financial incentive to see to the passage of at least one anti-piracy bill. Protect IP is a controversial piece of anti-piracy legislation decried by opponents as Internet censorship. (more)

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – On the same day that thousands of websites including Wikipedia and WordPress have gone dark to protest the Stop Online Privacy Act and Protect IP Act; Florida Senator Marco Rubio announced he was withdrawing his name and support for the bill. (more)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Sunday in a rare television interview that his Republican counterparts in the Senate are guilty of “obstructionism on steroids” and that the tea party is slowly “dying out.” (more)

The Department of Justice has confirmed the reversal of a long-standing precedent that applied a 1961 federal gambling law to Internet gambling. The DOJ now considers non-sport intrastate gambling legal, a victory for state lotteries. (more)

If the Senate were to play a game of “secret Santa,” what would Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey get for Majority Leader Harry Reid? (more)

Democratic Michigan Rep. Sander Levin told The Daily Caller that House Republicans are “blinded by a rigid ideology” and suggested that they “take the blinders off, come back here, see the light” and pass the Democratic-led Senate’s two-month payroll tax cut extension. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaders are renewing their call for the Democratic-led Senate to bargain with them and try to end the stalemate over extending a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits. (more)

Brushing aside criticism that House Speaker John Boehner is letting the tea party movement run his caucus, freshman New York Republican Rep. Tom Reed told The Daily Caller that the Republicans are functioning “like a true conference” while their Democratic critics, like Sen. Chuck Schumer, are “old school” and only want to “control” how their members operate. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House and Senate barreled toward a collision Monday over some of the chief ingredients of President Barack Obama’s recipe for reviving the economy, with tax increases and jobless benefit cuts awaiting millions of Americans on New Year’s Day if the dispute is not resolved. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats backed away from their demand for higher taxes on millionaires as part of legislation to extend Social Security tax cuts for most Americans on Wednesday as Congress struggled to clear critical year-end bills without triggering a partial government shutdown. (more)

On MSNBC’s “Daily Rundown” Wednesday morning, Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill told host Chuck Todd that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid should turn down his rhetoric and work with Republicans to solve the payroll tax impasse. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has wrapped itself into a partisan tangle over its year-end tax and spending business. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans unveiled a bill Friday renewing the Social Security payroll tax cut and extending but trimming unemployment benefits but barreled toward a showdown with President Barack Obama by including language jumpstarting work on a controversial oil pipeline. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the Senate won’t leave town for the Christmas holiday until Congress approves an extension of the payroll tax cut. (more)

Democrats found a familiar face to blame for the super committee failure on Monday night: Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist. (more)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid “hoped” that the super committee’s deficit reduction negotiations would consist of “hand-holding,” “hugs” and “pats on the back,” but says they have instead resulted in headlocks. (more)

After his meeting with House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the two lawmakers’ discussion of the super committee negotiations was “non-substantive.” (more)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid again blamed anti-tax activist Grover Norquist for preventing the super committee from reaching a deficit reduction deal, recommending that the American people “should impeach” Norquist. (more)