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Cybersecurity at the House
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Mar 16, 2011
The House Committee on Homeland Security holds a hearing at 10am Eastern called "Examining the Cyber Threat to Critical Infrastructure and the...
Online privacy hearing today
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Mar 16, 2011
The Senate Commerce Committee holds a hearing today at 10am Eastern on the State of Online Consumer Privacy. Committee Chairman John Rockefeller (D...
Lots of fuss about the D-block
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Mar 3, 2011
We're coming up on the 10 year anniversary of September 11th, and there's still a lot of squabbling about creating a separate network for public...
U.S. puts Chinese search engine on "notorious" list
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Mar 1, 2011
The U.S. Trade Representative's office released a list Monday of "notorious markets" for counterfeit goods. At the top, China's search engine Baidu...
Republican congresswoman going after net neutrality hard
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Jan 19, 2011
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is no fan of the recent FCC action to address concerns about net neutrality. She thinks it went way too far in...
MIDDAY UPDATE: Vatican financial transparency, NASA budget woes, and beer baths
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Dec 30, 2010
Pope Benedict XVI is working to make the Vatican's financial operations more transparent amid a financial investigation involving its bank. The...
MIDDAY UPDATE: Tax cut deal reached, Citigroup
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Dec 7, 2010
President Obama and Congress have reached a truce. Obama agreed to keep the Bush-era tax rates the same for all Americans for two years, and in...
MIDDAY UPDATE: Bernanke defends Fed policy, again; possible bipartisan compromise on tax cuts
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Dec 6, 2010
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke appeared on the CBS news program "60 Minutes" for the second time since the end of the financial crisis to...
MIDDAY UPDATE: Unemployment hits 9.8 percent; Congress turns down the volume on TV commercials
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Dec 3, 2010
The U.S. unemployment rate jumped to 9.8 percent in November from 9.6 percent, marking the highest jobless rate since April. The Labor Department...
Tax cuts and the World Cup in Russia
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Sep 21, 2011
Two final notes on the way out today: First, the House passed an extension of the Bush era tax cuts today for couples making less than $250,000....
