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House Panel Passes Bill for ByteDance to Part With TikTok

The legislation would give ByteDance an ultimatum of 165 days to divest from TikTok, or else it will become illegal for app store operators to sell the app.

Edith Olmsted

Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers speaks onstage during Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit - Day 2 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on October 13, 2015 in Washington, DC.
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GOP Committee Chair Announces She Won’t Run for Re-Election

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers is the 48th member of Congress to announce a retirement.

Edith Olmsted

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Trump’s Done With the Coronavirus, but It’s Not Done With Us

The administration’s own public health officials are sounding the alarm. Will Congress act where the president is not?

Max Burns

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How to Watch Mark Zuckerberg Testify Before Congress

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is testifying in front of the Senate following the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandals. Watch it live here.

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Congress Warms Up for the Sebelius Circus

Ben Jacobs

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Obama's Point Man on Oil Speaks

Lloyd Grove talks with Rep. Ed Markey, one of Capitol Hill’s toughest BP critics, about the dangers of storm season, the prospects for energy reform—and why nuking the spill is a disastrous idea.

Lloyd Grove

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BP's Biggest Congressional Hypocrites

Some of the toughest questions for embattled CEO Tony Hayward last week came from House members who don’t mind taking big checks from Big Oil.

Benjamin Sarlin

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Why I Feel Tony Hayward's Pain

The embattled BP exec was pelted by so many inane questions from the mediocrities in Congress they almost turned the oil spill villain into a sympathetic figure.

Tunku Varadarajan

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The Pain of Bart Stupak

Before the pro-life Dem received death threats for voting "yes" on health reform, he coped with his son's suicide. Sandra McElwaine talks to insiders about Stupak’s agonizing last decade.

Sandra McElwaine

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