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Dana Rohrabacher on Technology
Republican Representative (CA-46)
Opponent's Argument for voting No:
[Rep. Waxman, D-CA]: This bill will cripple National Public Radio, public radio stations, and programming that is vital to over 27 million Americans. We are now voting to deny the public access to one of our Nation's most credible sources of news coverage. This bill does not save a penny. This legislation does not serve any fiscal purpose, but it does serve an ugly ideological one. This legislation is not about reforming NPR. It is about punishing NPR. It is vindictive, it is mean-spirited, it is going to hit the smallest stations in rural areas particularly hard. Public radio is indispensable for access to news that's hard to get, especially where broadband service is limited.
Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Rep. RICK BOUCHER (D, VA-9): Fully 6.5 million households are totally unprepared for the transition on February 17; these 6.5 million households will lose all of their television service, and that number represents about 5.7% of the total American television viewing public. If almost 6%of the nation's households lose all of their television service, I think that most people would declare that the digital television transition has been a failure. In recognition of that reality, this legislation would delay the transition until June 12.
Opponent's argument to vote No:Rep. JOE LINUS BARTON (R, TX-6): The majority is trying to fix a problem that I do not think really exists. We have sent out 33 million coupons: 22 million of those coupons have been redeemed, and 11 million coupons are outstanding. The outstanding coupons are being redeemed, I think, by about 500,000 a week, something like that. In my opinion, you could keep the hard date and not have a problem, but if you think there is a problem, it is not from lack of money. We have appropriated $1.3 billion. About half of that is still in the Treasury, so the redemption rate is only about 52%. Even though we are delaying this until June 12 if this bill becomes law, according to the acting chairman of the FCC, 61% of the television stations in America are going to go ahead and convert to digital. 143 television stations already have converted, and in those areas where they have converted, I am not aware that there has been a huge problem.
Rep. LANGEVIN. One issue that has been repeatedly addressed is whether telecommunications companies should be granted immunity against pending lawsuits for their involvement in the earlier surveillance program. This legislation preserves a role for the U.S. court system to decide independently whether the telecommunications companies acted in good faith. Only after that review would the courts decide whether the telecommunications companies deserve any form of liability protection.
Opponents argument for voting NAY: Rep. LEVIN. I oppose this bill because of the provisions that would confer retroactive immunity on the telecommunications companies that participated in the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program. It sets a dangerous precedent for Congress to approve a law that dismisses ongoing court cases simply on the basis that the companies can show that the administration told them that its warrantless surveillance program was legal. A program is not legal just because the administration claims that it is.
Rep. NADLER. The House must decide today whether to uphold the rule of law & the supremacy of the Constitution or whether to protect & reward the lawless behavior of the administration and of the telecommunications companies that participated in its clearly illegal program of spying on innocent Americans. The bill is a fig-leaf, granting blanket immunity to the telecom companies for illegal acts. It denies people whose rights were violated their fair day in court, and it denies the American people their right to have the actions of the administration subjected to fair & independent scrutiny.
Veto message from President Bush:
This bill lacks fiscal discipline. I fully support funding for water resources projects that will yield high economic and environmental returns. Each year my budget has proposed reasonable and responsible funding, including $4.9 billion for 2008, to support the Army Corps of Engineers' main missions. However, this authorization bill costs over $23 billion. This is not fiscally responsible, particularly when local communities have been waiting for funding for projects already in the pipeline. The bill's excessive authorization for over 900 projects and programs exacerbates the massive backlog of ongoing Corps construction projects, which will require an additional $38 billion in future appropriations to complete. This bill does not set priorities. I urge the Congress to send me a fiscally responsible bill that sets priorities.
Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act of 2007 - Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to make permanent the ban on state and local taxation of Internet access and on multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce.
Related bills: H.R.743, H.R.1077, H.R.3678, S.156.
The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology has jurisdiction over non-defense federal scientific research and development. Specifically, the committee has partial or complete jurisdiction over the following federal agencies: NASA, the Department of Energy, EPA, NSF, FAA, NOAA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, FEMA, and United States Geological Survey.
|Ranking Member
|Technology and Innovation
|David Wu (D-OR)
|Adrian Smith (R-NE)
|Energy and Environment
|Brian Baird (D-WA)
|Bob Inglis (R-SC)
|Investigations and Oversight
|Brad Miller (D-NC)
|Paul Broun (R-GA)
|Research and Science Education
|Dan Lipinski (D-IL)
|Vern Ehlers (R-MI)
|Space and Aeronautics
|Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ)
|Pete Olson (R-TX)
A bill to prevent the Federal Communications Commission from repromulgating the fairness doctrine. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), notwithstanding any other provision of any Act, from having the authority to require broadcasters to present opposing viewpoints on controversial issues of public importance, commonly referred to as the Fairness Doctrine.
Terminates Federal funding for the superconducting super collider project: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the United States shall not, after the date of enactment of this Act, obligate any funds for the superconducting super collider project.
An act to encourage the disclosure and exchange of information about computer processing problems, solutions, test practices and test results, and related matters in connection with the transition to the year 2000.
Provides that no Year 2000 (Y2K problem) readiness disclosure (a statement concerning Year 2000 computer compliance information) shall be admissible in any civil action arising under Federal or State law against the maker of the disclosure to prove the accuracy or truth of any year 2000 statement in such disclosure, except: (1) as the basis for a claim for anticipatory breach or repudiation or a similar claim against the maker; and (2) when a court determines that the maker's disclosure amounts to bad faith or fraud or is otherwise unreasonable.
Corresponding House bill is H.R.4455. Became Public Law No: 105-271.
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KY-4: Thomas Massie(R)
MI-11:Dave Curson(D)
NJ-9: Donald Payne Jr.(D)
WA-1: Suzan DelBene(D)
Re-seated Former Reps:
AZ-1: Ann Kirkpatrick(D)
AZ-5: Matt Salmon(R)
FL-8: Alan Grayson(D)
IL-11:Bill Foster(D)
NH-1: Carol Shea-Porter(D)
NV-3: Dina Titus(D)
NY-24:Dan Maffei(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
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IL-2:Jesse Louis Jackson(D,resigned)
IL-2:Robin Kelly(D,running)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D,running)
MA-8:Stephen Lynch(D,running)
MO-8:Jo Ann Emerson(R,resigned)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R,resigned)
SC-1:Mark Sanford(R,running)
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AZ-9: Kyrsten Sinema
CA-2: Jared Huffman
CA-7: Ami Bera
CA-15:Eric Swalwell
CA-24:Julia Brownley
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CA-1: Doug LaMalfa
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The Humane Society of Missouri is investigating reports of starving, malnourished horses foraging for food in central Missouri.
It is a joint investigation with the Johnson County Sheriff's Office and animal welfare.
Officials are looking into the animal abuse claims on Southeast 1250 Road near Southeast 771st Road after receiving a few reports in recent weeks.
The reports claim the horses were not adequately cared for and had very little to eat.
KCTV5's Dave Jordan spoke with a caretaker for the horses and the man who hired him.
They deny claims of animal abuse and mistreatment, but declined to comment any further because the investigation is ongoing.
KCTV5 also reached out to an attorney but haven't heard back.
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On the eve of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address Wednesday, a speech that's expected to focus on the need for jobs, the nation's largest engineering association is warning that the latest jobs data is "discouraging" for engineering.
The IEEE-USA, which is part of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, believes some engineers are pulling out of the field and taking jobs in other areas or leaving the workforce because of the weak economy, based on its most recent analysis of government labor data.
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The engineering group argues that engineering employment is a bellwether of national economic vitality. If companies are to create new products and systems, then they will need to hire engineers do the work.
Among electrical engineers, the unemployment rate dropped from 7.3 percent to 5.2 percent from the third to fourth quarter. Good news? Not necessarily, because the total pool of employed electrical engineers declined in that same period by 3 percent, from 331,000 to 321,000.
Gordon Day, past president of IEEE-USA, said in an e-mail response to questions: "In the fourth quarter, there were about 10,000 more electrical and electronics engineers leaving their jobs ( layoffs , resignations, retirements, etc.) than there were new hires," he said.
But even though many of those 10,000 were added to the population of unemployed electrical engineers, many others stopped describing themselves as unemployed. Some have found jobs in other fields or retired while "some will have just stopped looking for employment in engineering," he said.
"The unemployment rate is the ratio of the number who describe themselves as unemployed to the number who describe themselves as employed," and to some extent the numerator and denominator can change independently, explained Day.
Similarly, the unemployment rate for software engineers fell slightly from 4.7 percent to 4.1 percent, but the total pool of employed software engineers fell from 970,000 to 952,000, nearly a 2 percent decline.
"It appears that electrical engineers who lost their jobs in early 2009 are taking jobs in other fields or giving up on their job searches," Day said.
The jobs data is not uniformly negative across all IT and engineering occupations. The numbers of employed computer scientist and systems analysts increased from 745,000 to 792,000, with unemployment falling from 7.3 percent to 5 percent.
Day said he hopes that the federal 2011 budget proposal, due Monday, "will call for continued growth in funding for technology, especially those investments authorized in the America Competes Act."
"Engineers and other applied technologists create jobs broadly, so it is very important to restore the health of the high-tech workforce," he said. The Competes Act, approved in 2007, includes a broad range of technology-funding and education initiatives.
President Obama is widely expected to give a lot of attention to jobs and unemployment in his State of the Union speech. Analysts and industry groups are predicting improved IT spending and hiring this year, but every report released discussing the economy in recent months underscore these outlooks with caveats and warnings, including the one released Tuesday by CompTIA, an IT industry group.


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The $27,000 that Winthrop University paid President Jamie Comstock Williamsons husband, Larry, to work as a temporary employee has been given back to the university to avoid any appearance of impropriety, according to a statement sent from the presidents office to The Herald on Thursday.
Heraldonline first reported on Wednesday that Larry Williamson was paid as Winthrop's senior counsel for strategic initiatives.
Officials said Larry Williamson was eminently qualified to work in the presidents office. His skills were needed to avoid a lapse in governmental affairs and external relations responsibilities after a long-time staff member in the presidents office stepped down for a part-time position, said Jeff Perez, Winthrop spokesman and senior counsel to the president for public affairs.
On Thursday, President Williamson announced that she and Larry Williamson returned the salary he made during the last school year.
During the entire stint of (Larry Williamsons) nine-month employment, we took great care to comply with the South Carolina Ethics Act ... Larry could work confidently in this capacity only if he knew his position was completely appropriate, President Williamson said in Thursdays statement.
As president, I believe I must set a standard even greater than compliance with the law and hold myself to higher values grounded in honesty and integrity. I will not allow even the appearance of wavering from those values. That is why Larry and I have returned the compensation paid to Larry by the university.
South Carolinas Ethics Act, which governs Winthrop officials and other public employees, says no South Carolina employee may cause the employment, appointment, promotion, transfer or advancement of a family member to a position in which the public employee supervises or manages. The act defines a spouse as a family member.
President Williamson did not hire her husband nor supervise him, Perez said. Larry Williamson was hired, he said, by Winthrop Chief of Staff Kimberly Faust, who also serves as secretary to the schools Board of Trustees.
Larry Williamson worked 20 hours per week, did not retain his own office and did not work under contract with Winthrop, officials said.
While paid for his work as a temporary, part-time employee, the money was secondary to giving (Larry Williamson) the credentials to be recognized as someone empowered to speak on Winthrops behalf, the president said on Thursday.
I remain proud of what Larry achieved for Winthrop, she said. I look forward to what everyone at Winthrop will accomplish together for our students and the community.
One of Larry Williamsons key duties while employed was to represent Winthrop as an economic development partner in potential projects with the city of Rock Hill and private investors.
President Williamson said she and her husband are honored to be associated with Winthrop and proud of the growing role the university is playing in the Rock Hill community ... Larry appreciated the opportunity to work on Winthrops behalf in his temporary, part-time role representing the university in Rock Hill and Columbia.
Winthrop board Chairwoman Kathy Bigham has said she can not comment on Larry Williamsons employment because the board plans to discuss presidential matters during a special called meeting on Friday.
Some Winthrop trustees were aware last year that Larry Williamson was being considered for employment, Perez said this week. The boards Executive Committee was formally informed in October.
Friday's board meeting, to be held in the Gold Room of the DiGiorgio Campus Center, will begin at noon with a public comment period. The board may then vote to meet behind closed doors.
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The Cincinnati Reds signed Jonathan Broxton to be their closer earlier today, which is news enough in itself. Not only does the move keep one of the team's potent arms in their elite bullpen, but it gives them a potential ace for their rotation. The move gives the team the opportunity to move former closer Aroldis Chapman into the starting rotation.
Reds pitching coach Bryan Price addressed the Chapman situation today in a conversation with John Fay of the Cincinnati Enquirer. He says the team does not have a hard-and-fast limit on his innings in mind for next season, but they will be sure to monitor him.
"I don't think there's an absolute. You have to have a plan and hope it works. Any time you have a young pitcher and he's going to surpass his inning total, there's going to be questions if he gets hurt. We can't be scared of that."
When asked if he had a number of innings in mind, he was not specific.
"A hard number, I can't say," he said. "I'd like to see where he is in terms of innings and pitchers after 25 or 30 starts."
Twenty-five to 30 starts is very nearly a full season's worth for a starting pitcher, so it doesn't sound like the team will be extremely cautious with him. Teams have seen mixed results when converting relievers to starters in recent years, so the jury is still out with regard to how to handle the transition.