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Press release, May 18, 2006: “Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN), Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA), Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT), and Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) today introduced the Free Flow of Information Act (12 pages, PDF), a bill seeking to protect the public’s right to information through a free press. This legislation would provide appropriate protections …
May 17, 2006: Report on the Progress of the DNI in Implementing the “Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004” (12 pages, PDF)
5/18/2006 – Press release: Sensenbrenner, Conyers Introduce Bipartisan Net Neutrality Legislation [H.R. 5417: Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act of 2006] Related documents and links: The Economics of Net Neutrality, Robert W. Hahn, Scott Wallsten. Related Publication 06-13. Apr 2006. “This essay examines the economics of ‘net neutrality’ and broadband Internet access. We argue that mandating …
Follow-up to previous related postings, ona May 17, 2006 the CDT sent a letter to Congress, signed by more than 180 organizations (including ALA and AALL), urging that public access to data from the EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory program not be subject to limitations.
John Cornyn, Immigration Reform: Back to the Future, Yale L.J. (The Pocket Part), May 2006. “The proper use of legislative history by judges interpreting statutes has long been debated among jurists and legal academics. But no one disputes the value of lawmakers themselves consulting legislative history, especially when they are wrestling with the very same …
H.R. 5126, the Truth in Caller ID Act of 2006 Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, Hearing, May 18, 2006. Link to Witness List & Prepared Testimony “Phone spoofing is a practice by which a caller causes a phone number other than their own to appear on a caller ID or similar display. EPIC said …
Senate Intelligence Committee Open Hearing: Confirmation Hearing of General Michael V. Hayden to be the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, May 18, 2006. Opening Statement by Michael V. Hayden, Unclassified (5 pages, PDF) Via FAS, full transcript of the Hayden confirmation hearing (171 pages, PDF), and the same transcript via DNI AP: Hayden Insists …
CRS report, Immigration Legislation and Issues in the 109th Congress, May 12, 2006 (37 pages, PDF) White House: President Bush Discusses Border Security and Immigration Reform in Arizona, Yuma Sector Border Patrol Headquarters Yuma, Arizona, May 18, 2006 White House, Comprehensive Immigration Reform White House Fact Sheet: President Requests Funds to Strengthen Border Security, May …
Following up on May 12, 2006 posting, Info On Pentagon Phone Surveillance Program Generates Legal and Political Ramifications, see today’s press release from Rep. Ed Markey, Letter to FCC Regarding the Legality of Telco Complicity in Phone Records Mining: Today Representative Markey sent a letter to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) requesting …
Cybersecurity Enhancement and Consumer Data Protection Act of 2006 (H.R. 5318), To amend title 18, United States Code, to better assure cyber-security, and for other purposes, introduced 5/9/2006, by Rep. James F. Sensenbrenner Jr.
Follow-up to May 11, 2006 posting, Domestic Call Records Mined for Expansive Pentagon Database Program, see the following related news and commentary: USAToday.com: NSA secret database report triggers fierce debate in Washington USAToday.com: Gathering data may not violate privacy rights, but it could be illegal Press release: Over Fifty Members of Congress Call for Special …
Follow-up to May 10, 2006 posting, EPA Reports Almost Half of the Nation’s Streams Are Polluted, see the Committee on Appropriations, Minority report, May 11, 2006: Love that Dirty Water: The Republican Record on Clean Water.
