February 10, 2012 KeystonePolitics.com Tracie Mauriello reports that Mike Doyle has reintroduced his bill to make publicly-funded research available to the public for free:

February 9, 2012 Pittsburgh Business Times The House of Representatives voted 417-2 for a bill that would limit congressional members from trading stock based on nonpublic information they receive in the course of their service.

February 9, 2012 Wired.com The open-science revolt, catalyzed just a few weeks ago as a reaction to publisher Elsevier’s backing of a clumsy bill introduced to the U.S. .

February 7, 2012 ThinkProgress.org In a hearing to mark up Republican legislation to expedite the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA) accused the foreign company TransCanada of misleading the American public that the pipeline would be built with American steel.

January 25, 2012 Duquesne Duke Censorship of the Internet could be an end-all for cracking down on websites that break copyright. But that won’t be the case, for now.

Every ten years, the state legislature must redraw all of Pennsylvania’s congressional districts based on the new population figures that come from the national census. This time the population numbers also meant a change in the congressional delegation from Pennsylvania from nineteen members to eighteen which caused the map-making to…