A group of U.S. senators from both sides of the political aisle are pushing legislation to study how sex and violence in the media effects young Americans.
A bill aimed at regulating sexually-oriented businesses received approval from the Missouri senate and now faces one more round of voting before it reaches the House. Bill SB 32 seeks to curtail the freedoms currently afforded to strip clubs and adult video retail outlets.
The controversy over gay and lesbian marriages might meet with an unpopular resolution in the Senate in mid-July as lawmakers consider a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. The proposed amendment states that marriage in the U.S. will only be recognized as involving a man and a woman.
After laboring over the issue of Internet taxation since November 2003, the U.S. Senate voted 93 to 3 to give the ban on taxing high-speed, wireless and dial-up services another four years.
The United States Senate is once again mulling over the issue of Internet taxation, only this time, President George Bush is weighing in loud and clear that the 1998 moratorium on state and local taxes for Internet connections should stand.
The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee plans to finish work on a broadcast indecency bill on Tuesday and send it to the Senate floor, where it is expected to pass overwhelmingly.
A battle cry against porn was answered by the United States Senate recently in the form of a resolution to step-up enforcement of national obscenity laws
Senators are getting anxious as the deadline for a decision on Internet taxation grows near. The original deadline was Nov. 1 and has since been postponed twice as senators debate the bill's wording and long-term ramifications
In what has proven to be a far more difficult issue to resolve than expected, the U.S. Senate failed to decide whether to permanently extend the ban on Internet taxation
