Politics & Policy

Senate, House Pursue Sharply Different Paths to Immigration Reform

Two key House Republicans plan to push ahead on immigration reform by focusing on a few specific bills, keeping the issue before the chamber widely expected to have the hardest time with immigration reform legislation.

Zuckerberg Forms Silicon Valley Super PAC to Take on Immigration

Mark Zuckerberg's super PAC, called FWD.us, is pushing for immigration reform and a series of other issues affecting the technology industry in the United States. The Facebook founder and CEO announced the creation of the super PAC on Wednesday in an op-ed for The Washington Post.

Republicans and Dems Come Together — to Keep IRS From Competing with TurboTax

A House bill introduced earlier this year would bar the IRS from offering taxpayers software that would compete with programs like TurboTax.

Street: Impact of Sequestration on California

The breakdown of the sequester effects on California was politically structured as an emotional call for Republicans to commit hara-kiri by compromising the demands of their base for fiscal discipline. With sequester only amounting to 2 percent of spending, the cuts do not seem to be as earth shattering as the media has predicted.