Patent law provisions pondered by Congress 
By Denise M. Champagne
POSTED: May 21, 2012
Tags: Congress, Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, patent law, USPTO
Increased fees and provisions of section 18 are among the major concerns stakeholders have regarding the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. Section 18, which goes into effect Sept. 16, involves the transitional program for covered business method patents and provides a post-grant review of patents issued before the law was enacted. David Kappos, director of the [...]
Bankruptcy judgeships get temporary extension
By Dolan Media Newswires
POSTED: May 17, 2012
Tags: bankruptcy judgeships, Congress, temporary extension
Congress has passed legislation that will temporarily save dozens of bankruptcy judgeships in 14 states and Puerto Rico from expiring. The Temporary Bankruptcy Judgeships Extension Act of 2012, H.R. 4967, which is expected to be signed into law by President Barack Obama, extends for an additional five years 29 temporary judgeships previously created by Congress. [...]
Republicans: Brooks a strong challenger
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: April 19, 2012
Tags: 'On the Radar', Congress, Maggie Brooks, National Republican Congressional Committee
Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks has been identified by the National Republican Congressional Committee as an “On the Radar” candidate in her campaign for a congressional seat. Her campaign announced Thursday that the designation is a significant second step in the “Young Guns” program. Brooks is running for New York’s redrawn 25th Congressional District, challenging [...]
LSC taps Washington attorney for leadership post
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: March 20, 2012
Tags: Congress, leadership post, LSC
The Legal Services Corporation has announced the appointment of Carol A. Bergman as director of Government Relations and Public Affairs. As of Monday, Bergman is overseeing LSC’s relationships with Congress, the Government Accountability Office and other government agencies. “Carol brings deep and diverse experience in governmental affairs at the national level,” said LSC President James [...]
Brooks sets her sights on Congressional seat
By Denise M. Champagne
POSTED: March 19, 2012
Tags: Brooks, Congress, election
County Executive Maggie Brooks wants to take the success of Monroe County to Washington. Noting it was probably the county’s “worst-kept secret,” she announced her candidacy for Congress on Monday at the Monroe County Republican Committee headquarters, which was packed with more than 100 supporters. “If you can’t tell, I am so exited about this [...]
Fighting crime vs. fighting a war
By Denise M. Champagne
POSTED: February 29, 2012
Tags: Congress, detain, fighting crime, Military, National Defense Authorization Act
Some members of Congress are already looking at changing provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act just two months after it was signed into law Dec. 31. They believe it gives the government too much power and could allow the military to indefinitely detain American citizens captured on American soil. Opponents of changing the law [...]
Slaughter supports ban on insider trading
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: January 26, 2012
Tags: Congress, insider trading ban, President Barack Obama, Rep. Louise Slaughter, State of the Union
Rep. Louise Slaughter of Fairport heard some good news from President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address Tuesday. “I was delighted to hear the president’s enthusiasm to sign legislation that ends insider trading in Congress and finally reigns in the political intelligence industry that’s been lurking in the shadows of the halls [...]
Reid postpones vote on anti-piracy bill
By The Associated Press
POSTED: January 23, 2012
Tags: anti-piracy bill, Congress, vote
WASHINGTON — Facing a storm of protest over online piracy legislation, Senate and House leaders said Friday they will put off further action on the measure. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he was postponing a test vote set for Tuesday “in light of recent events.” Those events included a petition drive by Google [...]
Seneca president supports House bill on land rights
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: December 22, 2011
Tags: American Indian Empowerment Act, Congress, Robert Odawi Porter, Seneca Indian Nation, tribal lands
Seneca Nation President Robert Odawi Porter is endorsing the American Indian Empowerment Act of 2011, a bill in Congress designed to empower Indian nations and tribes to accept restricted fee tribal lands. The House bill, H.R. 3532, was introduced Nov. 30 by Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, and Rep. Dan Boren, D-Oklahoma, and referred to the [...]
Poll: Most Americans want payroll tax extension
By The Associated Press
POSTED: December 15, 2011
Tags: Congress, payroll tax extension, poll
WASHINGTON — Most Americans want Congress to vote to continue the payroll tax reduction, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll that comes as Democrats and Republicans wrestle over whether to extend the cut through 2012. It’s the latest instance in which lawmakers on Capitol Hill have allowed partisan sniping to hold up action that [...]
Slaughter: Congressional insider trading must stop
By Daily Record Staff
POSTED: December 6, 2011
Tags: Congress, insider trading, Rep. Louise Slaughter, STOCK Act
Rep. Louise Slaughter of Fairport, in testimony Tuesday, said insider trading in Congress must be stopped in its tracks. Slaughter, ranking member of the House Rules Committee, testified before the House Financial Services Committee and praised it for agreeing to markup important legislation on the subject. She said The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, [...]
Debt panel’s demise sets up partisan wrangling
By The Associated Press
POSTED: November 23, 2011
Tags: Congress, debt panel, supercommittee
WASHINGTON — The failure of a special deficit-reduction supercommittee sets up a year-end battle between President Barack Obama and a dysfunctional Congress over renewing a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for millions. At the same time, the debt panel’s failure triggers deep, automatic cuts to the Pentagon budget, beginning in 2013, that defense hawks [...]
