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InternetNews
November 9, 2006
Roy Mark |
Lame Ducks Limp Back to Congress With a major power shift coming in January, Republican-led House and Senate return for mop-up session.   |
InternetNews
September 15, 2006
Roy Mark |
North Dakota a Gambling Haven? Republican state lawmaker defying his party by pushing for state-sanctioned online casinos. |
InternetNews
August 4, 2006
Roy Mark |
The Dopes of DOPA In an ugly fit of election year pandering to one of parents' worse fears, the House recently passed the Deleting Online Predators Act. |
InternetNews
August 11, 2006
Roy Mark |
Parents Smarter Than Congress? New surveys show parents are making all the right moves when it comes to protecting their children from online dangers. Congress, on the other hand .... |
InternetNews
January 4, 2007
Roy Mark |
Dems Go Virtual to Promote New Agenda Second Life press conference promotes network neutrality and online posting of bills before votes. |
Geotimes
February 2005
Katie Donnelly |
For Starters: Lame Duck Science and technology research and development did not escape the chopping block. The National Science Foundation received a 1.9 percent cut from last year -- the first cut to the agency in 13 years. |
InternetNews
September 8, 2004
Roy Mark |
Time Running Out on Fed's Tech Agenda CAN-SPAM and nanotech funding aside, the tech industry has seen little legislative success in a Congress consumed with matters of war and national security. |
InternetNews
September 6, 2006
Roy Mark |
Frist Pushing Internet Gambling Ban Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist targeted a ban on Internet gambling as a top priority for the U.S. Senate in the waning days of the 109th Congress. |
InternetNews
June 30, 2006
Roy Mark |
Network Neutrality: Telecom Reform Spoiler? Lawmakers now face the tough election year question of killing telecom reform for an issue they admittedly don't understand. |
InternetNews
July 26, 2006
Roy Mark |
House Targets Social Networking Sites Legislation would force schools and libraries to block sites like MySpace. |
InternetNews
January 24, 2006
Roy Mark |
HD Radio: New Chance for More Fed Regs? The Recording Industry Association of America is back before Congress seeking more protection and compensation. |
InternetNews
November 30, 2005
Roy Mark |
Senate Sets Ambitious Tech Schedule Signaling its intent to focus on Internet and telecom issues next year, the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee plans to hold 14 hearings on a wide variety of technology topics between January and March. |
InternetNews
November 16, 2004
Roy Mark |
Tech Hopes Dim With Lame Duck Congress A final, four-day session leaves little time for new Internet access tax moratorium and other items on tech agenda. |
InternetNews
January 18, 2006
Roy Mark |
Senate Returns With Crowded Tech Agenda Congress kicks off 2006 legislative season with 14 tech-related hearings in two months. |
InternetNews
January 4, 2005
Roy Mark |
New Congress, Old Tech Issues Lawmakers return to Capitol Hill facing familiar demands from the IT industry and consumers including telecom reform and stock option expensing. |
InternetNews
January 9, 2007
Roy Mark |
Sununu Wants to Squelch FCC Flag Raising U.S. Sen. John Sununu is working to prohibit the FCC's tech influence on electronics makers. |
Searcher
March 2007
Mary Alice Baish |
Librarians as Change Agents: How You Can Help Influence Public Policy in the 110th Congress Key library issues for the 110th Congress. |
Reason
April 2008
Jeff Flake |
Passing Bad Laws A short guided tour -- by a congressman -- of the worst bills currently in Congress. |
InternetNews
July 11, 2006
Roy Mark |
House Passes Ban on Internet Gambling In the sharpest attempt yet to curb Internet gambling by Americans, the U.S. House of Representatives voted today to ban financial payments to offshore casinos. |
InternetNews
May 2, 2006
Roy Mark |
Senate Bill Dumps Net Neutrality Wide ranging legislation relegates network neutrality to further FCC study. |
InternetNews
January 26, 2007
Roy Mark |
Markey And His Net Neut Show Verizon and AT&T dodged a major legislative bullet on mandated network neutrality. |
PC World
February 20, 2001
Jennifer O'Neill |
Congress Navigates a Flood of Net Privacy Bills Lawmakers, industry juggle e-commerce and consumer concerns in review of longtime (and new) proposals... |
InternetNews
November 19, 2007 |
New Push to Roll Back Online Gambling Ban? Lawmakers press U.S. Trade Rep for a second look at online gambling bans. |
InternetNews
November 11, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Top Dem Doubles Down in Online Gambling Fight Amid heated lobbying effort and sharp criticism, Bush administration races forward with Internet gambling rules. |
Information Today
January 15, 2007 |
Library of Congress Unveils Beta of New THOMAS The Library of Congress has released a new beta version of THOMAS, its Web site that provides access to federal legislation and related documents. |
InternetNews
December 19, 2006
Roy Mark |
Looking Back: Net Neutrality Spoils Telecom Reform A review of the top stories and issues that rocked the tech industry in 2006. |
InternetNews
February 17, 2006
Roy Mark |
Lawmakers Bet on New Online Gambling Ban The Internet Gambling Prohibition Act proposes to make it illegal for Americans to use the Internet for gambling and would authorize law enforcement officials to stop credit card payments and other forms of electronic payments. |
InternetNews
October 2, 2006
Roy Mark |
Gambling Sites Folding U.S. Hand Before President Bush evens signs a new law aimed at curbing Internet gambling, online gaming companies are preparing to pull out of the lucrative U.S. market. |
AFP eWire
November 8, 2004 |
Bush, Congress at Odds Over Charities? At his first press conference since being reelected, President Bush indicated that tax reform will be a priority in his second term and stated that tax incentives for charitable giving are very important and should not reduced. |
PC World
November 21, 2006
Andy Sullivan |
New Law Won't Stop Internet Gambling Federal legislation bans credit-card payments, but sites have alternatives. |
InternetNews
January 19, 2011 |
Reid to Renew Senate Cybersecurity Push Senate majority leader looks to merge competing committee bills to arrive at reform legislation this year, still waiting for the White House to weigh in. |
InternetNews
June 8, 2007
Roy Mark |
New Deal For Online Gambling? From the courtroom to Congress, opponents of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 this week began playing their hands to undo the controversial legislation. |
InternetNews
April 10, 2006
Roy Mark |
Security Group Calls on Congress Public confidence in e-commerce will erode if Congress does not step forward and pass a meaningful national data breach disclosure law this year, according to the Cyber Security Industry Alliance. |
Wired
November 2000
David Corn |
Filegate.gov The biggest Congressional scandal of the digital age: Politicians aren't putting public docs on the Net, and no one seems to care... |
AFP eWire
September 25, 2006 |
Congress Approves Database of Federal Grants, Contracts Congress has passed legislation (S. 2590) that would create a searchable database of all federal government spending, including grants to charities. |
InternetNews
May 18, 2006
Roy Mark |
No Neutral Ground With Net Neutrality Singer Moby joins the debate over telecoms' efforts to charge content owners based on bandwidth use. |
InternetNews
February 9, 2007
Roy Mark |
When Is a Breach a Breach? If you think there's hope for a national data breach notification law, consider this: Congress can't decide what a breach is. Really. |
U.S. CPSC
October 31, 2007 |
CPSC Acting Chairman Issues Statement on Letter to Congress A response to those who called for his resignation. |
InternetNews
May 25, 2006
Roy Mark |
Fresh Start For Net Neutrality? Both the House and Senate will take up legislation today on the increasingly contentious issue of just what is - or is not - network neutrality. |
InternetNews
September 23, 2005
Roy Mark |
Senate Turns Attention to Data Privacy The Senate Judiciary Committee expects to vote next week on legislation making it a crime for data brokers to conceal a security breach involving personal data and increasing penalties for computer fraud when the act involves personal data. |
InternetNews
April 6, 2006
Roy Mark |
Banks Rap Internet Anti-Gambling Proposal Legislation designed to put a dent in Internet gambling ran into opposition Wednesday from the banking industry and, surprisingly, the Traditional Values Coalition. |
InternetNews
January 26, 2007
Roy Mark |
Antigua Takes Upper Gambling Hand Over U.S. Antigua has won its latest long-shot effort to force the U.S. to open its market to offshore gambling, according to a confidential report issued by the World Trade Organization. |
InternetNews
September 24, 2004
Roy Mark |
Congress OKs Tech-Friendly R&D Tax Credit Technology consortium had pushed for the nearly $8 billion credits as key drivers for the industry. President Bush is expected to sign the legislation. |
InternetNews
March 16, 2006
Roy Mark |
House Seeks to Cut Cash Flow to Online Gambling Approved on a close voice vote by the House Financial Services Committee, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act requires financial institutions to identify and block payments to offshore casinos, sports book and other online gambling sites. |
InternetNews
February 9, 2007
Roy Mark |
House Delivers Package of Privacy Bills Members of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee introduced a package of bills Thursday evening aimed at identity theft, pretexting, data security and breach notifications. |
InternetNews
November 5, 2004
Roy Mark |
FTC to Congress: Lose the Anti-Spyware Plans The Federal Trade Commission again warned Congress today that anti-spyware legislation is unnecessary with the existence of adequate fraud laws to contend with spyware perpetrators. |
InternetNews
April 26, 2007
Roy Mark |
Lawmaker Bets on Legalizing Online Gambling A new bill proposes to allow Americans to wager online through licensed sites. |
InternetNews
October 7, 2005
Roy Mark |
The Hype in The Broadband Pipes Politicians' bold talk of telecom reform is so far just so much hot air. Next year, though, is an election year, so appealing voter issues such as anti-spyware and data-breach disclosure laws will take center stage. |
InternetNews
November 8, 2007 |
EU Presses U.S. to Change Internet Gambling Law The United States must change an Internet gambling law that discriminates against European companies by preventing them from offering services in the U.S. market. |
BusinessWeek
April 5, 2004
Paula Dwyer |
Mutual Funds: Carpe Diem, Congress The SEC can't restructure the industry by itself, and legislators are dawdling |
