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H.R. 5252 – “Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement Act of 2006 – Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to allow an eligible person or group to obtain a national franchise to provide cable service in a franchise area in lieu of any other authority under federal, state, or local law. Requires: (1) the filing of …
Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus 2006 Watch List: “…the Caucus announced they will focus on China and Russia as high priority countries, due to the scope and depth of their piracy problems. The Caucus will also closely monitor the serious problems of copyright piracy in the following countries: Mexico, Canada, India and Malaysia.”
The Center for Media and Democracy have posted a guide, which will be updated, “…of the members of Congress currently under investigation by the congressional ethics committees or law enforcement authorities, based on credible media reports.”
Government Reform Committee Oversight Hearing, “Once More Into the Data Breach: The Security of Personal Information at Federal Agencies,” June 8, 2006. “The data loss at VA is the largest by a federal agency to date, and the latest in a long string of personal information breaches in the public and private sectors, including financial …
June 8, 2006: “The Internet Caucus Advisory Committee (ICAC) hosted a discussion focusing on the legislative proposals percolating in Congress on so-called Network Neutrality. No fewer than six House and Senate bills are circulating in Congress that in some way address this amorphous policy question.” [Link] “…the ICAC has requested of all its 200 member …
Follow-up to postings on the government phone surveillance program, USAToday.com reported that Senate Judicary Chair Arlen Specter cancelled hearings that would have scrutinized the extent to which phone companies provided customer records to the NSA. Related Congressional news: CNN reported on growing tensions between Specter and Cheney which produced a formal written complaint by the …
Center for Public Integrity, Privately Sponsored Trips Hot Tickets on Capitol Hill – Study finds almost $50 million spent on travel for lawmakers, aides “Over a 5½-year period ending in 2005, members of Congress and their aides took at least 23,000 trips valued at almost $50 million financed by private sponsors, many of …
Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing: Examining DOJ’s Investigation of Journalists Who Publish Classified Information: Lessons from the Jack Anderson Case, June 6, 2006. Links to testimony and member statements Related posting, AG States Prosecution of Journalists for Leaks is Legal
Democratic Policy Committee Report on S.J. Res. 1, the Marriage Protection Amendment, June 5, 2006. Related documents and news: S.J.RES.1, A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage. U.S. Senator Wayne Allard (R-Colorado) statement on June 6, 2006 regarding the Marriage Protection Amendment that is currently being …
BusinessWeek.com Keeping an Eye on the Snoops: With government eavesdropping getting more aggressive, privacy safeguards need to be beefed up. Postings on domestic surveillance program
Federalism, Democratic Values and the Federal Marriage Amendment: “This morning the Center for American Progress, in partnership with the Cato Institute, welcomed the perspectives of four legal experts on the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA) up for vote in the Senate this week. The panelists were Dale Carpenter, law professor at the University of Minnesota; Louis …
The American Bar Association Board of Governors decided reportedly “unanimously…to investigate whether President Bush has exceeded his constitutional authority in reserving the right to ignore more than 750 laws that have been enacted since he took office.”
