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• Another bill targeting patent trolls advances in Congress

  A House bill aims to make it more difficult for patent-holding companies to file infringement lawsuits

• US House votes to ban Internet access taxes permanently

  The House vote would extend a moratorium that's been in place since 1998

• Senate to return early to debate phone dragnet

  Senators will return to Washington Sunday, just hours before a portion of the Patriot Act expires

• US Senate leader pushes to extend NSA phone dragnet

  The Senate may work into the weekend to find a deal on extending portions of the Patriot Act

• Critics blast US NSA phone records bill as 'fake reform'

  Even some supporters say the USA Freedom Act should be only one step toward surveillance reform

• Civil liberties groups oppose bill ending NSA's bulk phone records program

  The USA Freedom Act's changes to the phone records program are 'modest' at best, opponents say