Congress

• Some high-profile congressmen who earlier supported two controversial anti-piracy bills are reversing their position on the legislation after Internet companies and citizens today expressed their strong opposition to the measures.
(CBS News)
• KITV.com Some of the lawmakers in the Hawaii delegation in Congress gave statements Wednesday to the Stop Online Piracy Act. Wednesday was a day many popular websites, including Wikipedia, did a one day protest against the bill going through Congress.
(msnbc.com)
• Jan. 17 (Bloomberg) -- With polls showing approval of Congress at an historic low, lawmakers returned to Washington today to start the legislative year and resume the very battles that opinion surveys show have turned off voters.
(Businessweek)
• WASHINGTON — Congress did not act unconstitutionally when it extended copyright protection to millions of foreign music and literary works that previously were in Americas public domain, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
(USA Today)
• The public is not assigning blame equally between President Obama and Republicans in Congress for the partisan gridlock over key legislation. In the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, 60 percent say Mr.
(New York Times Blogs)
• The U.S. House of Representatives will likely vote today to disapprove of raising the debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion.
(NPR News)
• Less than a year from its inception, the far-left Occupy Wall Street movement is already sputtering. Many liberal big-city mayors have ejected protestors from their campsites and their donations have dried up.
(News Busters)
• On Jan. 4, President Obama appointed Richard Cordray director of the new consumer protection agency without Senate approval. He did so citing his constitutional authority to unilaterally fill vacancies during a Senate recess.
(Slate)
• Today's online protest against legislation to fight Internet piracy has led to scores of calls to Congress and a steady outcry via Twitter, after some of the biggest names on the Web -- including Google Inc.
(Boston Globe)
• DENVER - Several popular websites blacked themselves out or otherwise made a visual display Wednesday over a controversial pair of Internet anti-privacy bills in Congress. One of Colorados members of Congress is a co-sponsor of one of the bills.
(9News)