one introduced in the House on October 26, 2011, called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and another introduced in the Senate on May 12, 2011, called the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011 (PIPA)—and vowed to make a full-court press to pass them in 2011.11 In February 2011, Biden invited industry leaders to the White House again to plot strategy.12
