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Lawmakers ask Google's Larry Page to address Glass privacy issues
SAN FRANCISCO -- Months before the futuristic glasses become publicly available, Google Glass is already getting scrutiny from Capitol Hill. Eight members of Congress on Thursday sent a letter to Google Chief Executive Larry Page to ask what his company...Tags: Google Glass, Google Inc., Justice System, Computer Hardware, Media Industry
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Federal Trade Commission to data brokers: Show us your data
SAN FRANCISCO -- Data brokers who collect vast amounts of information on Americans will be the ones turning over information this time. The Federal Trade Commission has ordered nine data brokerage companies to tell the agency how they harvest and use...
Tags: Federal Trade Commission, Acxiom Corporation, Consumers, Crime, Law and Justice, John D. Rockefeller IV
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Talk of drones patrolling US skies spawns anxiety
WASHINGTON (AP) — The prospect that thousands of drones could be patrolling U.S. skies by the end of this decade is raising the specter of a Big Brother government that peers into backyards and bedrooms. The worries began mostly on the political...
Tags: Washington, DC, New York City, Charlottesville (Charlottesville, Virginia), Executive Branch, Justice and Rights
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House vote sets up Senate cybersecurity showdown over privacy, corporate and government spying
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House’s solid bipartisan vote for a cybersecurity bill sends a message to the Senate: Now it’s your turn to act. Ignoring a White House veto threat, the House approved the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and...
Tags: Bennie G. Thompson, Washington, DC, John McCain, John Boehner, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011
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Emanuel says he'll testify if called before Congress on Solyndra
Clout StreetMayor Rahm Emanuel today said that if asked, he will appear before a Congressional panel investigating the now-bankrupt solar power firm Solyndra. “Listen, if I’m called I’ll testify,” Emanuel said during an unrelated news...Tags: Solyndra LLC, Bankruptcy, U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Politics, Rahm Emanuel
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House votes to block enforcement of light bulb rules
Nation NowA spending bill aimed at preventing a federal government shutdown would block enforcement of new energy-efficiency rules for light bulbs, letting old-style incandescent bulbs stay around a bit longer. The provision was a high priority of congressional... -
Ban the BCS championship? Texas congressman says yes
Nation NowTexas Rep. Joe Barton introduced a law to ban the BSC championship game and replace it with a playoff system to determine college football's national champion.... -
Sports Legend Revealed: Did the Governor of Colorado lose Pikes Peak in a football bet?
The Fabulous ForumFOOTBALL LEGEND: The Governor of Colorado lost Pikes Peak to Texas in a football bet. Bets between politicians are a common tradition in the world of professional sports. Just this past year, before the Major League Baseball (MLB) World Series...... -
A Word, Please: Playing it safely
"If anything I said this morning has been misconstrued to the opposite effect, I want to apologize for that misconstruction." That was Texas Rep. Joe Barton's apology for an apology — his ridiculously noncommittal backpedaling after telling BP...Tags: Yogi Berra, BP Plc, Texas, Disasters, Environmental Pollution
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US Rep Joe Barton Touts Nuclear Power's Safety
doug.magditch@the33tv.comThe images of devastation in Japan seem unimaginable in north Texas. "Obviously, in Texas, it's very unlikely we're going to have an earthquake and a tsunami, certainly not here in Glen Rose," said US Representative Joe Barton (R-Texas). There are...Tags: Texas, Politics, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Tokyo Electric Power Co., Elections
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A little too far
Congress dictates too many minor issues. Take the light bulb for example. Thomas Edison created the first incandescent bulb in 1879. The bulbs are safe, cheap and reliable. In 2007, then-President George Bush signed an energy bill that took aim at the...Tags: Texas, Politics, Headaches, Elections, Michele Bachmann
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Roll Call: House votes on abortion, health exchange bills
WASHINGTON - Here's how area members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending Saturday: HOUSE Abortion tax policies Voting 251 for and 175 against, the House on Wednesday sent the Senate a bill (HR3) that would use the U.S. tax code as a...Tags: Disasters, Mitch McConnell, Justice System, Incest, Environmental Pollution
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