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The National Republican Congressional Committee is targeting Rep. Tom Perriello with a tough new television ad attacking him for his vote in support of cap-and-trade energy legislation and isn't afraid to connect him to President Obama in the process.

Faced with the prospect of new regulation, a coalition of the major ad industry trade groups have issued new privacy principles for online behavioral advertising, or tracking people as they surf the Web and serving ads based on sites visited.

ALTON, Va. Rep. Tom Perriello relishes an energy fight with Republicans even here in the rural southside.

The 1,500-page climate change bill that has passed the House of Representatives and is awaiting its day in the Senate promises to leave less change in the pockets of the public, according to Rep.

Representative Rick Boucher of Virginia: assurances on coal-burning power plants.

A A A' House Republicans will target freshman Rep. Tom Perriello in a new television commercial that criticizes the Virginia Democrat for his recent vote in favor of controversial energy reform legislation.

Congress will face its first big test for one of Obama's biggest and most controversial domestic priorities, stemming climate change.

Comprehensive legislation to protect consumers' privacy is closer to becoming a reality in the U.S. Congress than it's been in several years, officials with the Center for Democracy and Technology said Tuesday.

US President Barack Obama on Monday praised leaders of the House of Representatives for helping pass an energy and climate change bill and said he is "confident" the Senate will pass similar legislation that would make sharp cuts in US greenhouse gas emissions.

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- In the lead up to a House floor vote on H.R. 2454 -- The American Energy and Security Act of 2009 -- much has been said about the importance of clean coal technology in an overall energy policy.

High-speed Internet will be provided to rural areas throughout Carroll and Grayson Counties by an almost $100,000 federal grant, U.S. Rep.

House Democratic leaders were clawing for the last undecided votes as debate on a climate and energy bill wound down toward a final vote this afternoon.

On Thursday, the Virginia Organizing Project, as part of Health Care for America Now joined thousands of health care supporters from around the country in Washington, D.C. for Health Care-We Cana t Wait 09!, a health care reform lobby day.

WASHINGTON, June 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With the summer travel season underway, Representative Zoe Lofgren yesterday introduced the "Access to Repair Parts Act," H.R. 3059, legislation that would guarantee the availability of high-quality, low-cost automotive collision replacement parts.

Representative Adam Schiff, a Democrat of California, a genial congressman who sometimes bicycles to work from his suburban Maryland home, convened another panel this morning at the Capitol to survey the future of newspapers and journalism.

The SHVERA reauthorization bill passed unanimously in the House Communications, Technology & Internet Subcommittee Thursday with essentially no entangling amendments.

Congress is debating the role of Internet privacy, even as the TV industry prepares to introduce the type of targeted/addressable advertising similar to that now being conducted on the Internet.

House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman and Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson Tuesday reached a substantive deal on energy and climate legislation that they say provides them with enough support for perhaps the most ambitious environmental bill ever to pass the House.

Here comes the battle the online ad business has been dreading: Congress is drawing up a bill that would require users to sign up to let advertisers track their online behavior-and, if you believe online publishers, more or less destroy the online ad business.

The pot of $11.5 million coming from the federal government for Interstate 77 water and sewer projects increased by $2.88 million Monday after an announcement by 9th District Rep.