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A bill to amend the USA PATRIOT Act to repeal the sunsets was introduced in the Senate May 21, by Senator Jon Kyl (R-AR). See S. 2476. See my previous post on USA Patriot Act Sunset Provisions. See also ACLU, ALA Oppose Bill Making Patriot Act Permanent
Testimony of Robert S. Mueller, III, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, May 20, 2004, hearing on FBI Oversight: Terrorism and Other Topics. “…I would also like to acknowledge that the progress the FBI has made in reforming our counterterrorism and intelligence programs is due in no …
“Congressman Kendrick Meek (D-FL), Member of the House Select Committee on Homeland Security and Congressman Jim Turner (D-TX), Ranking Member of the Committee, and House Democrats, yesterday introduced the Strengthening Homeland Innovation by Emphasizing Liberty, Democracy, and Privacy Act, or SHIELD Privacy Act, to strengthen homeland security by protecting privacy and civil liberties.” Text of …
Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, Oversight Hearing, “Derivative Rights, Moral Rights, and Movie Filtering Technology,” May 20, 2004: Witness List, Statements/Testimony: Chairman Lamar Smith, Howard L. Berman, Joanne Cantor, Jeff McIntyre, Bill Aho, Majorie Heins.
May 18, 2004 – Legislative hearing on H.R. 3179, the “Anti-Terrorism Intelligence Tools Improvement Act of 2003.” Witness List, Chairman Howard Coble, Daniel Bryant, Thomas Harrington, and from the prepared statement of Bob Barr, “The question before us today is whether the USA PATRIOT Act should be expanded this year. In short, the answer is …
S. Res. 360 – Expressing the sense of the Senate that legislative information shall be publicly available through the Internet. May 13, 2004: From the statement by co-sponsor Sen. Leahy: “In particular, we are calling on the Library of Congress to improve its public website, called “THOMAS (U.S. Congress on the Internet),” in order to …
The Fraudulent Online Identity Sanctions Act (H.R. 3754), to provide additional civil and criminal remedies for domain name fraud, was approved by the House Judiciary Cmte. on May 12, as was H.R. 1731, the Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act. For reference, see the Lanham Act.
Hearing today: H.R. 107, The Digital Media Consumers’ Rights Act of 2003, Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection. Witness List & Prepared Testimony From testimony by Prof. Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School: “A poorly crafted copyright law – a law that either creates too much uncertainty, or a law that extends its reach beyond …
From the House Committee on Government Reform: “All 19 minority members of the Committee write Secretary Thompson to protest HHS’s obstruction of their investigation into the withholding of the [Medicare] cost data. The members officially expand their Seven Member request to include the communications between HHS and congressional leadership.” Letter to HHS, April 26, 2004 …
Spyware: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You, Hearing by the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection, April 29, 2004 [Link to Witness List & Prepared Testimony, Related Documents and Bills.] See also Congress Eager to Ban Spyware and related postings on the subject.
As a follow-up to this post on the theft of Senate Judiciary Cmte. computer files, Sen. Patrick Leahy today issued the following statement: “I have been notified that the Department of Justice has ‘assigned’ to David Kelley, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the investigation of Republican staff theft of Democratic …
Senator Collins Receives Answers on Terrorist Threat Integration Center, April 20, 2004 Letter to Sens. Collins, Levin on TTIC Structure New Gov’t Surveillance Database Announced by Bush, January 30, 2003
