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hi guys, runnin win xp
i tried tweaking some startup stuff to cut down on what was running to help speed up my comp
and deleted some old unused programs, which i think may have contained the now problematic dll file
dunno what i did wrong as i thought i turned everything back to the way it was but im still getting this stupid error
"Notification dll
has not been registered program will not work correctly"
immediate upon bootup and starting to access my desktop
i cant drag and drop anything on my desktop and this is not only a pain in the but, its also preventing me from trying a technique i found to drag and drop the dll file to hopefully reg and fix it
network connections is empty
tried a few other fixes i found elsewhere,none worked and gave me this message when i tried
ethernet adapter wireless network connection 2:
media state........:media disconnected
ethernet adapter local area connection:
media state........:media disconnected
and if its relevant and helps solve it, as soon as i hit enter, i can get around on my desktop,yet immediately it pops up not one but two of the same folders system32
and in the services section,it will not let me start alot of the various services that seem like they need to be running to access my wireless stuff ie
* Remote procedure call (RPC)
(This service must be started before other services can take effect.).
* Network Connections
(This service can only start if the RPC service is active.)
* Plug and Play
* COM+ Event System
(This service can only start if the RPC service is active.)
* Remote Access Connection Manager
(This service can only start if Telephony service is active.)
* Telephony
(This service can only start if the RPC service and the PnP Service are active.)
Those are not running and i know that is part of the problem but when i click on 'start' i get this error message. very frustrating!
"could not start the xxx service on local computer. error 1068: the dependency service or group failed to start"
unfortunately i had system restore off so there are no restore points
i saw this tip elsewhere but am not sure how to implement it?
Great tip Pavel. That got it. The file assoicated with the Wireless
Configuration popup error is the DW WLAN Card Wirless Network Controller
file - bcmwltry.exe. The notification dll the popup is assoicated with
\system32\wltrynt.dll (Wireless Notification Provider). Once I registered
wltrynt.dll, no more popup and the wireless worked immediately.
any help is appreciated,thanks

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Rediculus has released the next edition of his Masters of Conversation production series titled Punchlines and Parables, quickly following up his critically acclaimed Walking Down Broken Paths instrumental album and marking the 4th edition of the production series. Rediculus, who resides in Chicago, Illinois, just put the final touches on the last mixes literally a few weeks ago and is now preparing to delight his fans with his latest studio album which he hopes will expand his fan base and get his music heard by more people around the globe.The first single, "Halo (Pain is Love)" which was released last month to rave reviews, features a hard blaring horn sample with a neck snapping snare to drive the track and longtime collaborator and fellow Chicagoan Prome on the microphone dropping lyrical napalm on the track. The new single "Picture Perfect" has a soulful backdrop and smooth knocking drums and features verses from vocal giants Sha Stimuli, Sadat X of Brand Nubian fame and Emilio Rojas spitting nothing short of classic verses.The album, "Masters of Conversation: Punchlines and Parables", is 17 tracks all produced by Rediculus and features some of hip hop's hottest MC's such as Ruste Juxx, Craig G, Sha Stimuli, Emilio Rojas, Chubb Rock, Koncept and The Audible Doctor from Brown bag All Stars, Big Dutty Deeze, Chaundon, Notoriety, Stumik Icewater, Sadat X, Shabaam Sahdeeq, Red Eye, Pair-a-Dyce, Nine and many more. The album itself is both a return to the "Golden Era" and a glimpse into the future of hip hop. Soulful samples scream and wail throughout the project, backed by growling bass lines and driving drum tracks with custom kicks and snares that showcase the wide variety of influences in Rediculus's life and music.Rediculus is quoted as describing the project with the following statement; "This album is going to really make people think about what they listen to and show people that you can reach consumers without watering down our culture. We have a host of people in the culture who are over 30 and want music that they can relate too, something with more substance that addresses the issues in their lives. The current trend of making songs about negative images backed by empty music is coming to an end and this project should definitely help drive the nails into that coffin. People want something smarter and I'm here to give it to them"The album is digitally distributed globally by Island/Def Jam and will include several limited edition runs of physical copies, with a UK exclusive edition containing a few remixes Rediculus did for Big Dutty Deeze and American exclusive artwork for his US edition. People are encouraged to follow Rediculus on Twitter, keep in touch with him on Facebook, check out his Bandcamp page and visit his website for more information and to keep up on the latest news with Rediculus and all of Knowledge Giving Birth Productions.Connect with Rediculus* http://twitter.com/#!/Rediculus ** http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=579346392 ** http://rediculus.bandcamp.com/ *
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Sony VPL-FH30 WUXGA 3LCD Projector Review
Optional Lenses
For more flexibility of installation, Sony offers two optional lenses to choose from, depending on your installation needs. The standard lens (which comes with the projector and was used for this review) has a throw ratio that ranges from 1.39 to 2.23 (this means the projector can be placed at a distance from the screen that equals 1.39 to 2.23 times the screen width). For those who need to mount the projector at a greater distance from the screen, the two optional lenses offer greater throws at 2.34 to 3.19 or 3.18 to 4.84. What does this all mean? It means that by choosing the appropriate lens, the projector can display a 100" wide (125" diagonal) image at distances ranging from as little as 11'-7" (139") or a far as 40'-4" (484").
Use of an optional lens also requires a special lens adapter. These lenses don't come cheap however. Each lens is $2199.95 and the adapter is $48.95.
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When used with a computer input, Sony has added a special gamma mode to the VPL-FH30 that displays images approximating the DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine) GSDF (Grayscale Standard Display Function) used with B/W medical imaging (such as X-rays). This mode optimizes black/gray/white detail by providing a custom gamma curve. Like other projectors that include such a mode, it is not intended for actual medical evaluation, but it allows for more accurate training of medical students, as well as more detailed medical imaging presentations.
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CANNES, France Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Talk about awkward.
Not only did Adele Exarchopoulos' father watch the graphic sex scenes between her and another woman in Cannes Palme d'Or-winning "Blue Is The Warmest Color (The Life of Adele)," she was with him when he took in the film at its premiere.
"During the love scenes I was ill at ease with my father being there, but at the same time I wanted him to be there. And I knew that he would probably have a very good reaction because it's all a question of intelligence and he's intelligent and therefore would understand," said Exarchopoulos.
She added:
"During the sex scene I was looking at him, like, `Oh my god, how does he feel' because I don't want to make him uncomfortable, you know?" the 19-year-old said in an interview. "I think I was trying to take a certain distance from what was happening during the love scenes."
In the film, Exarchopoulos stars as 15-year-old Adele. She's heterosexual, but after meeting co-star Lea Seydoux's Emma, falls in love and begins to struggle with her sexuality. On Sunday, Steven Spielberg's jury awarded the festival's top honor, the Palme d'Or, to "Life of Adele" director Abdellatif Kechiche, but also to the film's two stars.
Exarchopoulos said she and Seydoux shared nervous giggles before filming the intimate scenes, but that's it.
"It really developed, there was no choreography at all. We tried to put ourselves in the situation, and it helped in a way that I was new to the situation because my character is new to the situation as well," she said. "So it was all right that I was destabilized. Lea was leading me and I was kind of following in the flow. But I must say it was a strong thing to play."
This is one of two films Seydoux is promoting at this year's festival. The other, "Grand Central," from director Rebecca Zlotowski, is showing in the Un Certain Regard category.
The actress, who cut her hair and dyed it blue for "Adele," said she liked the challenge of her role.
"I really enjoyed playing this part, this tomboy even if it was very difficult sometimes. I like to play parts that are complex, and I like ambiguity and I like contradictions as well, she's like, I like to really give something very subtle," she said.
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Li Yu Chun doesn't exactly mesh with the image of most starlets who walk on the red carpets at the Cannes Film Festival.
Instead of flowing gowns, the Chinese singer has worn dramatic capes that accompany striking pantsuits. And while many female celebrities sport cascading locks, Chun has her hair cut short, pixie style.
"A lot of people are asking me, `Why aren't you wearing a long dress like a princess?'" said Chun, who came to the festival as a representative of the cosmetics brand L'Oreal. "I have another personality and that is why I have to show my own personality with the suits that fit me. That is why I love to work with L'Oreal because they have given me self-confidence."
Chun, who is known for her boyish, androgynous looks, said she was surprised to be chosen as a L'Oreal ambassador since she represents a different look than some of their other representatives at the festival, like Freida Pinto, Julianne Moore, Aishwarya Rai and Eva Longoria.
"Usually they choose girls with long hair and big waves in her hair and that is not exactly my image," she laughed. "That is why I was surprised but happily surprised."


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Argentina's captain Tito Vazquez has named a five-man squad to travel to Spain for the Davis Cup by BNP Paribas Final, taking place on clay at the Olympic Stadium in Seville on 2-4 December.
Juan Martin del Potro, the world No. 11, leads the challenge for the visitors alongside Juan Monaco, Juan Ignacio Chela, David Nalbandian and Eduardo Schwank.
Vazquez is due to submit his official player nominations on 22 November, when he will need to narrow his squad down to the four-man team that will take on Spain.
It's expected that Schwank will be the player to miss out, with Vazquez naming an unchanged line-up to the one that claimed a 3-2 win over Serbia in the World Group semifinals in September.
Spain's captain Albert Costa will also be naming his team on 22 November, ten days before the Final gets under way, and Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer are both likely to feature.
"I think we are in our best moment as a team," said Vazquez. "Juan Martin has been training twice a day and these players were born on clay.
"Day one is the key. Nadal is a tough nut, he's a motivator and very good for his team mates. If we're 1-1 at the end of day one we'll have a real chance of taking the trophy."
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Daily News Record: Goodlatte Tackles Drug Prices
Congressional Hearings Begin Today Into 'Pharmaceutical Price Gouging'
By Rachel Cisto
November 17, 2015 | Hyperlink
BROADWAY — Nelson Showalter has owned the Broadway Drug Mart since 1987, when he purchased the business from his father.
Over nearly 30 years, Showalter has built up a loyal customer base, but as he explained to U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Roanoke, on Monday, the cost of some prescription drugs might make that base harder to maintain. Goodlatte visited the Broadway pharmacy one day before the House Judiciary Committee begins a series of hearings on competition in health care.
Goodlatte, chairman of the committee, called the hearings in response to recent incidents of "pharmaceutical price gouging."
One such incident occurred earlier this year, when Turing Pharmaceuticals AG raised the price of Daraprim, a medication used to treat AIDS and cancer patients, from $13.50 a pill to over $700 a pill overnight.
Showalter said a drug his store purchased in September cost 400 percent more than it had in January.
Goodlatte said sudden price increases aren't fair to smaller chains and promised to look into the manufacturing companies.
"I'd like to write to these companies and ask why it's necessary for the price of a drug to go up 400 percent in nine months," he said.
Showalter said, like Daraprim, the rising costs of some prescriptions are making it too expensive for his pharmacy to dispense them. He relayed a story of a patient who came in with a prescription for diabetes medication as an example.
"We entered it into the system to see the cost, which the insurance companies set," he said. "If we filled that prescription, we'd take a $118 loss."
In another case, Showalter said, an insurance company representative told him he would have to "tell the patient we couldn't get that medication, or fill the prescription at a loss because we have a contract," he said. "Our hands are tied."
John Bell, from WilliamsonHughesPharmacy in Harrisonburg, said that while larger chains such as CVS or Walgreens purchase drugs in much larger quantities, even some of them are losing money on some prescriptions.
"They might be purchasing at a little better rate, but not to the tune of $118," he said.
Massachusetts-based Mc-Kesson Corp. manages the HealthMart Pharmacy Network, which both Broadway Drug Mart and WilliamsonHughes are part of.
Joseph Ganley, vice president of federal government affairs for McKesson, said the HealthMart model allows for "the advantages of a chain pharmacy while retaining independent owners."
However, Ganley said, no matter the size of the chain, the manufacturers' fluctuations in cost end up hurting the pharmacy.
"Realistically, there's no pushback from the insurance companies," he said. "The companies put downward pressure on the pharmacies instead."
In addition to rising prices from manufacturers, Showalter said some health insurance companies offer incentives to patients for using pharmacies the companies own, eliminating most competition and hurting smaller, independently owned pharmacies like his.
He cited the relationship between Humana insurance and Walmart pharmacies as an example.
"We're not 'locked-out' of providing for [Humana customers], but there's a zero dollar co-pay at Walmart and a $7 co-pay here," he said. "We've had customers say, 'I want to fill my prescriptions here, but it's a cost thing.'"
Both Showalter and Bell urged Goodlatte to support House Bill 244, known as the MAC Transparency Act, which would prevent insurance companies from requiring patients use a specific pharmacy or providing special incentives for using a pharmacy the company owns.
"This is a very important bill for the survival of independent pharmacies," Showalter said.
However, John Castellani, the president and CEO of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, wrote last month that price controls on prescription drugs would "erode the U.S. leadership in biomedical innovation, spur loss of high-tech STEM jobs and undermine U.S. competitiveness."
Castellani's statement also said the proposals to change regulations in the industry would "halt medical innovation" and encourage suppliers to import drugs from other countries and put patients at risk.
Goodlatte said he would take the stories he'd heard from Bell and Showalter and use them as examples in the hearings.
"Hopefully, we can shine a spotlight on this problem," he said, "and see if we can do some good."
National Review Online: Reduce Prison Sentences, but Not for Violent Offenders
By Bob Goodlatte
November 2, 2015 | Hyperlink
Starting this month, thousands of federal inmates are set to be released early from federal prison, including serious violent felons and criminal aliens. This action is not the result of legislation passed by the people's elected representatives in Congress. Rather, it is a result of a decision made by unelected officials appointed to the United States Sentencing Commission.
In early 2014, the Sentencing Commission adopted an amendment to reduce the sentences for certain drug-trafficking and distribution offenses, including trafficking offenses that involve drug quantities substantial enough to trigger mandatory minimum sentences. The Sentencing Commission made these reductions retroactive, applying them to tens of thousands of inmates in the Bureau of Prisons' custody who are serving sentences for drug offenses. Since then, thousands of federal inmates have filed motions with their courts of jurisdiction for sentence reductions and have been granted approval for early release.
The problem with the Sentencing Commission's changes to federal drug-sentencing requirements is that they are applied without regard to the inmate's criminal history and public safety. Consequently, criminals set to be released into our communities as a result of the Sentencing Commission's amendment include inmates with violent criminal histories, who have committed crimes involving assault, firearms, sodomy, and even murder.
There is growing consensus in Congress that certain federal drug sentences, such as mandatory life imprisonment for a third drug-trafficking offense, are unnecessarily harsh and contribute to prison overcrowding and a ballooning federal prison budget. However, the Sentencing Commission is going about sentencing reform the wrong way. Its new guidelines blindly apply sentencing reductions to all federal inmates without considering the impact an early release would have on the safety of our communities.
The Sentencing Commission's unilateral changes show why it is imperative that Congress act on sentencing reform and other criminal-justice issues. If Congress does not act, the matter is left in the hands of an entity that has demonstrated it cannot be trusted to act responsibly. Fortunately, leaders in the House of Representatives and the Senate agree that our nation's criminal-justice system needs improvement and are working on bipartisan legislation to do just that.
In the House of Representatives, the Judiciary Committee, which I chair, is taking a step-by-step approach to criminal-justice reform and will introduce several bills that address individual issues within the criminal-justice system, including over-criminalization, sentencing reform, prison and reentry reform, improved criminal procedures and policing strategies, and civil-asset-forfeiture reform. Recently, I joined several leaders of the committee in introducing our first piece of bipartisan legislation to reform federal sentencing requirements and simultaneously prevent serious violent criminals from getting out early.
That bill — the Sentencing Reform Act — makes the criminal-justice system more fair, efficient, and fiscally responsible. It reduces certain mandatory minimums for drug offenses, including cutting the third-strike mandatory life sentence to 25 years and the second-strike mandatory sentence from 20 to 15 years. The bill also broadens the mechanism for non-violent drug offenders to be sentenced below the mandatory minimum sentence and provides judges in those cases with greater discretion in determining appropriate sentences. These changes will help save taxpayer dollars and take an important step toward reducing crowding in our federal prisons and the amount of federal taxpayer dollars spent on incarceration each year.
Most important, the bill contains major limitations on the retroactive application of these reforms, to ensure that serious violent criminals serve the full time for their crimes in federal prison and do not get out of prison early. This is in stark contrast with what the Sentencing Commission has done to federal sentencing requirements.
Additionally, the Sentencing Reform Act contains an important tool to fight the current heroin epidemic. It allows for an enhanced penalty of zero to five years for trafficking in fentanyl. Fentanyl is a highly dangerous drug 80 to 100 times more potent than morphine, which is often combined with heroin and has led to a surge of overdose deaths across the country.
While the fruit of the Sentencing Commission's reckless changes is laid bare beginning this month, the House Judiciary Committee will move forward with the Sentencing Reform Act so that sentencing reform is done responsibly. Our criminal-justice system is in need of reform, but we must ensure that changes to the system do not compromise the safety of the American people.
Northern Virginia Daily: ITFederal breaks ground in Front Royal
By Kaley Toy
October 26, 2015 | Hyperlink
FRONT ROYAL – An ITFederal groundbreaking ceremony was held at the former Avtex Fibers site on Monday afternoon.
U.S. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said, this is a "new era for economic development."
The $40 million project located on 30 acres of the former Superfund site on Kendrick Lane, near the EDA building in Front Royal, is anticipated to bring about 600 new jobs to the area.
"Hundreds are expected to be working here," Goodlatte said.
This was a long process, Goodlatte added, that the community came together to make happen.
"You put the difficulties behind you with the aim of convincing your citizens and the greater region that this place can once again be a good location for business to thrive. So I must once again congratulate you on the tenacity you displayed," Goodlatte said.
Front Royal Mayor Timothy Darr said, "Embrace what this milestone project can bring to our community. This is our first step into a new era, which will bring many new ideas and concepts in business and in life that we as a community must embrace."
Darr added that this groundbreaking "begins a process of change" for the community and that he is happy to have a new business and community partner with ITFederal.
ITFederal president, Curt Tran, said, "It is exciting for ITFederal to get this opportunity to develop and do our office complex here at the Royal-Phoenix site."
"It's truly an honor for ITFederal to be a part of this project, and to finally see Royal-Phoenix rising out of the old Avtex site," Tran added.
Chairman of the Warren County Board of Supervisors, Richard Traczyk, said, "We're going to have an excellent new site."
Chairman Patricia Wines, of the Economic Development Authority, said, "This is a fine day for our community."
This site will soon be a "useful, income producing site" for residents of Front Royal and Warren County, Wines added.
"This should be a good day to come together in celebration of what we can accomplish when we work towards one common goal for the betterment of all."
Richmond Times Dispatch: Editorial: Good for Goodlatte for defending free speech on college campuses
By Editorial Board
August 19, 2015 | Hyperlink
In recent years, colleges and universities have come under tremendous pressure from a wide array of sources, from the federal Education Department to student activists on campus, that has led them to ride roughshod over the constitutional right to free speech.
Far too many public institutions have adopted campus speech codes that restrict not only where and when members of the community can speak freely to small "free-speech zones," but also sharply curtail what they can say. Campus speech codes have prohibited everything from "humor and jokes about sex" to any expression that might "offend" anybody else at the university.
In recent years, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has become something like the ACLU for higher education by defending students and faculty members, of every political persuasion, who have run afoul of such speech codes. By publicizing egregious cases and advocating for those censured, it has helped to roll back some of the more outrageous speech codes around the country.
Not long ago, FIRE President Greg Lukianoff testified before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice about how much work remains to be done. "Highly restrictive speech codes are the rule rather than the exception on public college campuses nationwide," Lukianoff noted. In some places, Lukianoff testified, speech codes "persist even in the very jurisdictions where they have been ruled unconstitutional." (Only one public college in Virginia, Norfolk State, gets a red-light rating from FIRE, although several others get a yellow-light rating.)
Now the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Virginia's 6th District Rep. Bob Goodlatte, has written to the presidents of 161 public institutions that have among the worst speech codes in the nation. The letter reminds the presidents of what they seem to have forgotten: Their institutions are part of the government and, as such, are obliged to adhere scrupulously to the First Amendment. That means they cannot censor speech just because it might hurt somebody's feelings. It concludes by asking the university presidents "what steps your institution plans to take to promote free and open expression on its campus(es), including any steps toward bringing your speech policies in accordance with the First Amendment."
Goodlatte's letter serves as an important counterweight to the "Dear Colleague" letters and other regulatory decrees of the Education Department. It ought to put both the universities and the federal education bureaucracy on notice that they remain subject to the First Amendment, and any rules they consider should first be tested against it before moving toward adoption.
University administrators want to maintain a serene atmosphere on campus. And they certainly want to avoid the loss of federal funding that they might incur if they too blatantly flout the Education Department. But those desires do not trump the nation's founding document and its most fundamental principles. Goodlatte deserves a round of applause for reminding them of that.
Washington Times: Bob Goodlatte wants answers from Loretta Lynch on Obama drug pardons
By Maggie Ybarra
July 14, 2015 | Hyperlink
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee wants U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to answer detailed questions about the 89 drug offenders to whom President Obama has granted clemency.
Rep. Bob Goodlatte, Virginia Republican, and 18 other committee Republicans say they are deeply concerned that Mr. Obama has been using his pardon power to benefit specific classes of offenders. They listed their concerns about the presidential pardons, which they say appear to be going to a vast number of federal drug offenders, in a letter Tuesday to Ms. Lynch.
The Committee oversees the Department of Justice, including the functions performed by the Office of the Pardon Attorney, and is now demanding answers about the pattern of the presidential pardons.
Earlier this week, Mr. Obama commuted the sentences of 46 men and women convicted of nonviolent drug crimes. He also commuted lengthy prison sentences for eight people convicted of drug offenses and issued pardons to 12 other federal convicts in December 2014.
From the surface, it looks as if the clemency initiative is a "plainly unconstitutional practice of picking and choosing which laws to enforce and which to change," Mr. Goodlatte said in the letter. That initiative was established in April 2014 and calls on qualified federal inmates to petition the president for reduced or commuted prison sentences.
"This is not, as the Founders intended, an exercise of the power to provide for 'exceptions in favour of unfortunate guilt,' but instead the use of the pardon power to benefit an entire class of offenders who were duly convicted in a court of law – not to mention a blatant usurpation of the lawmaking authority of the Legislative branch," he said.
Committee members are now asking Ms. Lynch to answer nine questions ranging from narcotics quantities to heroin trafficking. They have instructed her to respond to those questions no later than July 24.
U.S. News & World Report: An Unnecessary Invasion of Privacy
By Patrick Leahy and Bob Goodlatte
May 21, 2015| Hyperlink
For the past nine years, Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act has been used by the National Security Agency as legal authority to indiscriminately collect Americans' telephone records into a massive, secret database. Americans were outraged when they learned that billions of their phone records were stocked away in a government database – especially when national security experts examined the program and concluded that it was not essential to preventing terrorist attacks. And recently, a three-judge panel of a federal appellate court unanimously confirmed that the NSA's bulk collection of Americans' phone records is unlawful. This program must end.
Make no mistake, the debate in Congress over the future of the NSA's bulk collection program is about far more than just phone records. We know that for years the NSA indiscriminately collected Americans' Internet metadata – that is, information about who we communicate with online. That is why it is so important to put a stop to this now.
A strong bipartisan coalition of leaders in Congress, which includes us, has come together to do just that. The USA Freedom Act reforms our nation's intelligence-gathering programs to protect Americans' civil liberties and enhance our national security. Recently, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved this bill, but unfortunately some in the Senate continue to advocate for mass surveillance and are using scare tactics and misleading arguments to block reform.
Supporters of mass surveillance argue that it is critical to our national security, but the experts disagree. Richard Clarke, a senior Bush administration counterterrorism official on Sept. 11, 2001, recently said that there is no benefit to a massive database of Americans' phone records. None. He also said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last year that this program would not have prevented the terrorist attacks on 9/11 – as did former Sen. Bob Graham, who investigated the Sept. 11 attacks as head of the Senate Intelligence Committee. And while some claim that the USA Freedom Act would take us back to a pre-9/11 posture, experts including the attorney general and the director of national intelligence agree that our legislation preserves key national security authorities.
We know that our intelligence agencies do not need massive amounts of private, personal information on law-abiding Americans to keep this country safe. We also know that the intelligence community is facing a critical deadline before authorities under the Patriot Act are set to expire. If Senate leaders continue to block our bipartisan path forward to improve intelligence capabilities and protect Americans' privacy rights, the authorities they consider so critical will cease to exist.
President Barack Obama, the director of national intelligence, the attorney general, civil liberties groups, technology companies and an overwhelming majority of the House of Representatives – 196 Republicans and 142 Democrats – all support this bill. Most importantly, the American people support the USA Freedom Act. The handful of senators who advocate for mass surveillance should listen to the court, the intelligence community and the American people and not hold up progress any longer.
Patrick Leahy is a Democratic senator from Vermont and the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Bob Goodlatte is a Republican representative from Virginia. He is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
USA Today: Let the taxman die
By Bob Goodlatte and Kevin Brady
May 13, 2015 | Hyperlink
Tax Day — a day that more Americans hate than any other — has come and gone. The recent scandals and bureaucratic bungling by the Internal Revenue Service have so angered the public that cries to "Abolish the IRS" trigger enthusiastic applause at political rallies and have become popular bumper stickers all over the country.
Americans rightly gripe about taxes and lawmakers from left to right tout their commitment to tax reform, and occasionally efforts to reform certain aspects of the code do take shape. While they are often just nibbling at the edges of the larger problem, thankfully progress has begun. Following three hard years of work by the House Ways & Means Committee, its former chairman, Dave Camp, successfully produced the first full tax reform draft in three decades. The panel's new chairman, Paul Ryan, is making pro-growth tax reform his signature issue.
But the truth is it will probably take something dramatic to finally get the president and Congress to act: eliminating the current tax code.
With a skeptical electorate tired of gridlock, we think this has actually made 2015 an ideal time to establish a timetable that culminates in meaningful, lasting tax reform that truly helps hardworking taxpayers and creates a healthier economy. That's why we are working hard to see the Tax Code Termination Act (H.R. 27) approved by the Congress and signed into law.
Sunsetting — legislatively terminating — the tax code is a sure fire way to spur the reform the tax code needs. Across the political spectrum, there is almost universal agreement we can do far better by the American people than the current tax code.
Our current code is just too big, too complex, and fraught with loopholes and abuse. It's inherently unfair and inefficient.
In 1914, the U.S. tax code was about the same length as American Sniper or Gone Girl. Now it's grown to almost 74,000 pages — the length of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, if you read it nearly 70 times!
And yes we've heard the horror stories; in fact, many of us know people who have lived these horror stories. In the last two years more than 360,000 taxpayers were the victims of a scam involving fake IRS agents who threatened consumers and conned their victims out of over $15 million.
In February, the tax service provider H&R Block reported that more than 50% of Obamacare customers received subsidies that were too large, and as a result they will have their tax refunds reduced or need to send in additional money with their returns. These examples are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the confusion and harm caused by our tax code's complexity.
The best way to reform is to first do away with what we have now. Under our plan the current tax code would expire on December 31, 2019. Between now and then there would be a presidential election and a mid-term congressional election. That provides plenty of time to debate and agree upon a new and reformed tax structure that would kick in with the New Year on January 1, 2020.
This approach will allow us, as a nation, to collectively decide what the new tax system should look like. There are many competing alternatives but having a set date to end the current tax code will drive the issue and the debate to the top of the national agenda.
This would give everyone an equal opportunity to make their case and contribute to the debate. Whatever tax plan you may support, we'd all be at the starting line together.
Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Virginia., is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, is a member of the House Ways and Means Committee. Let Freedom Ring, has independently begun a grassroots communications effort with the website SunsetTheTaxCode.com.
The Hill: Pass Freedom Act now
By Reps. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.)
May 12, 2015 | Hyperlink
Recently, a federal appeals court ruled that the National Security Agency's bulk collection program is not authorized under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. This court ruling confirms what we've been saying all along: bulk collection of data is not authorized under the law and is not accepted by the American people.
It also reaffirms that a straight reauthorization of the bulk collection program, as some have proposed, is not a choice for Congress. Now more than ever, it is imperative that we reform our nation's intelligence-gathering programs so they protect both national security and Americans' privacy.
For more than a year, we have worked to craft a bill that does just that. The result is the USA Freedom Act, which contains the most sweeping set of reforms to government surveillance practices in nearly 40 years. And this week, the House will vote on this bipartisan legislation.
Last year, the USA Freedom Act passed the House 303-121. It narrowly failed to advance in the Senate, garnering 58 votes in its favor but falling 2 votes short of reaching the 60 required for cloture. That could have been the end of the reform effort, but we believed it was important to keep tackling this issue, because core American values are at stake.
Consequently, we have worked since January on a bipartisan, bicameral basis to update the USA Freedom Act. The result is an even stronger bill that achieves greater reforms, unequivocally ends bulk collection of data, protects Americans' civil liberties and increases the transparency and oversight of our intelligence community, while also protecting national security and specifically including targeted enhancements to combat foreign terrorists like members of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Some argue that protecting both individual liberty and national security is unattainable, but these two goals are not in conflict with each other. From the founding of the American republic, this country has been engaged in a profound debate about the limits of government. In the Federalist Papers, the founders argued passionately for a federal government that would protect the American people from foreign threats. At the same time, the founders struggled to create a structure to contain and control that government in order to protect the God-given rights of the American people. They carefully crafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights to accomplish these two different, yet complimentary, goals.
The debate surrounding the NSA's intelligence-gathering programs has illuminated the exceptionality of the United States. The ceaseless effort to restrain the reach of government is in our DNA as Americans. And for 225 years, we have refused to accept the idea that in order to have national security, we must sacrifice our personal freedoms.
The USA Freedom Act lives up to these ideals, proving once again that we can protect both Americans' civil liberties and our national security without compromising either one.
For example, the bill protects Americans' civil liberties by banning the bulk collection of any business records and prohibiting large-scale, indiscriminate collection, such as data from an entire state, city or even zip code. It also creates a panel of experts to advise courts examining the government's national security requests on matters of privacy and civil liberties, communications technology and other technical or legal matters.
In addition, the USA Freedom Act increases the transparency of the government's intelligence-gathering programs by making more information available to the American public. It requires the declassification of all significant court opinions, mandates the attorney general and the director of national intelligence to provide the public with detailed information about how they use these national security authorities, and provides even more robust transparency reporting by America's technology companies.
The USA Freedom Act contains several important national security enhancements to keep our country safe from those who wish us harm. It closes loopholes that make it difficult for the government to track foreign terrorists and spies as they enter or leave the country, enhances investigations of international proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and increases the maximum penalties for material support of a foreign terrorist organization. With the rise of ISIS and other foreign terrorist groups, these targeted provisions could not come at a better time.
The USA Freedom Act represents government at its best — the product of a robust public debate and intense bipartisan negotiations dedicated to finding a way to protect our constitutional rights while enhancing our safety. Once the House passes this legislation, the Senate should do the same.
Goodlatte has represented Virginia's 6th Congressional District since 1993. He sits on the Agriculture Committee and is chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Sensenbrenner represents Wisconsin's 5th Congressional District and has served in the House since 1979. He sits on the Science, Space and Technology; and the Judiciary committees.
News & Advance: Lynchburg's Goodlatte at Fore of Civil Liberties Fight
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
May 10, 2015 | Hyperlink
There's a civil liberties revolution brewing in the House of Representatives, and Rep. Bob Goodlatte, as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is leading the fight.
When Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency whistleblower, began leaking details of the NSA's intelligence gathering operations and the scope of the data the U.S. government was collecting from around the globe, many Americans were shocked. And nothing shocked the average American more than the revelation that the NSA was vacuuming up metadata on every, single cellphone call made in the country. Not the actual voice content of calls, but data that could identify who made a call, to whom, from where using what cell towers and for how long. The agency was then storing the information at massive data centers built around the country, including one in the deserts of Utah.
The clincher for many Americans and civil liberties advocates was that none of it was done with a warrant. The NSA used an obscure section of the USA Patriot Act, passed in the immediate wake of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as the legal foundation for its program.
That just didn't sit well with Goodlatte, and rightly so.
Though the Sixth District congressman is as strong on law-and-order issues as any Republican, the lawyer and former aide to the late Caldwell Butler, the Republican congressman from Roanoke who played a pivotal role on the Judiciary Committee in the impeachment of President Richard Nixon, is just as strong on issues of government overreach and impingement of personal liberties.
Which brings us to this past week and two big, news stories.
First, a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously declared the NSA phone data collection program unconstitutional in a sweeping victory for privacy advocates.
Second, Goodlatte successfully shepherded a massive intelligence bill, the USA Freedom Act of 2015, through the Judiciary Committee on a 25-2 vote, sending it to the full House for action.
The Patriot Act, last renewed in 2010, sunsets on June 1 if Congress takes no action to renew it.
With less than three weeks to go, a major fight between the House and the U.S. Senate is about to explode onto the public stage. The House — led by Goodlatte, Rep. James Sensenbrenner (the Republican who authored the original Patriot Act) and the House leadership — want to see major reforms to the intelligence-gathering process, especially in the wake of the Snowden revelations. In the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is holding firm for a blanket extension, addressing none of the concerns of civil libertarians.
Right now, it's a matter of which chamber's legislation is first to gain approval. And in that race, Bob Goodlatte is ahead. If he and the House leadership can quickly approve the USA Freedom Act and send their legislation to the Senate first, then the House bill becomes the primary path for reform.
First and foremost, Goodlatte's bipartisan legislation ends the NSA's warrantless, bulk collection of metadata by clarifying and rewriting Section 215 of the Patriot Act. But equally important are reforms of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act federal court that handles highly sensitive intelligence cases. Goodlatte's bill creates a panel of privacy experts to advise the court on behalf of the American public and also greatly increases transparency of the court itself. Under the bill, for example, all major opinions of the court must be made public and the U.S. attorney general and director of national intelligence regularly report to Congress and the American people how their intelligence gathering powers are being used.
Goodlatte, a member of Congress for more than 20 years, is not naive; he knows America has mortal enemies abroad who must be dealt with. He also knows that intelligence gathering simply cannot take place in glare of legal sunshine. But he also has been a staunch defender of the individual when confronted by the power of the central government.
The intelligence reforms he and his Democratic and Republican colleagues have crafted strike a good balance between the need to protect the nation and the need to protect the individual from the nation's government. We expect the full House to concur and hope the U.S. Senate sides with him in the fight over the Patriot Act, a needed weapon in the war on terrorism but one in need of reform.
Goodlatte & Capuano: College ratings plan is not the answer
February 26, 2015 | Hyperlink
Do engineers matter more than the science teachers who fired their imaginations? Are accounting majors more valuable to our society than someone studying theology? Should a university receive less financial aid because their students choose humanitarian service instead of high paying jobs? How can these incomparables be measured – and should we try? The Obama administration raises these important questions with its Postsecondary Institution Ratings System (PIRS) for colleges and universities. In December, the Administration unveiled its proposed framework, but many questions remain.
We, a Republican from Virginia and a Democrat from Massachusetts, have been skeptical of these efforts since they were first announced more than a year ago. We've heard concerns from many in the higher education community. Last summer, in response to these concerns, we introduced a resolution, H. Res 614, expressing support for the quality, value and diversity of our nation's higher education institutions and strong disagreement with the Administration's plans to implement a college ratings system.
Now that the Department of Education has released its draft framework for rating post-secondary education, we are renewing efforts to build support for our resolution, introducing it in the 114th Congress as H. Res 26.
The criteria that federal education officials would use to create a ratings system – "access, affordability and outcomes" – illustrate the problems they will face. All of these benchmarks are certainly important considerations, but there will be enormous and unavoidable difficulties in comparing institutions based on these criteria. Perhaps more importantly, where are the benchmarks that consider an individual's personal determinations of value? One size certainly will not fit all.
An Ivy League university cannot be compared with a small rural college on the basis of alumni income. Nor should one compare completion rates for a selective private college with a large state university that admits, and in some cases may be required to admit, many local high school graduates with widely varying levels of academic preparation. Unless the criteria are developed in a way that accurately accounts for the academic diversity of America's colleges, the data will be misleading and ineffective.
Moreover, and even more troubling, earned income should be no measure of the contributions that individuals make to society. This will easily incentivize colleges and universities to encourage students to choose majors such as pre-med or computer science over social work and education. A perfect example of how this rating could negatively impact a university can be found in President Obama himself. He chose to work as a community organizer after graduating from Columbia, a position for which he would have been modestly compensated. His lower income could have negatively impacted Columbia's rating, if such a rating system existed in 1983. Surely we would not value anyone's work solely based on their salary. We do not want federal policy to discourage public service.
Another concerning aspect of the proposal is the linking of ratings to eligibility for financial aid. Schools with a mission to serve low-income or first-generation college students may, for reasons quite apart from the excellence of their teaching, show lower rates of completion and lower alumni earnings. These schools, however, provide crucial opportunities for many young people. If the financial aid available to them were limited by poor ratings, their essential mission would be jeopardized. Higher education would become unattainable for many underserved students.
Our nation boasts a rich history of student-choice in higher education. For some individuals, a city school is preferred over a rural school, for others extracurricular offerings such as music or sports may be important. The Department of Education in its own proposed framework does not claim "at this time" to have "metrics" for those aspects of education they admit are "intangible." If a characteristic is intangible it is by definition abstract and impossible to quantify. No one can place an arbitrary value on an individual's experience at an institution, tie federal funding to that value, and expect to have accomplished some measure of accountability.
Everyone agrees we must address issues of college affordability and student debt. We agree that taxpayer dollars should be spent responsibly and effectively. We also agree that prospective students should have data available to help them make informed decisions and provide as much objective information as possible towards that end. Federally rating our colleges and universities is not the way to do this. Such a divisive and subjective ratings system, with too many unintended consequences, will threaten the special characteristics and diversity that make our postsecondary system the best in the world today.
We stand ready to work with those interested in protecting that diversity while ensuring that taxpayer dollars are wisely spent and anyone who wishes to go to college has the opportunity to do so.
Goodlatte has represented Virginia's 6th Congressional District since 1993. He is chairman of the Judiciary Committee and also sits on the Agriculture Committee. Capuano has represented congressional districts in Massachusetts' Boston area since 1999. He sits on the Ethics; the Financial Services; and the Transportation committees.
Goodlatte & Grassley: Ensuring Trust in Internet Governance
February 12, 2015 | Hyperlink
This week in Singapore, important decisions are being made about the future of the Internet at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) 52 conference. At stake are fundamental questions: Should the American people surrender stewardship over core technical functions that have preserved the open and neutral operation of the Internet since its inception? Should the Obama Administration cede this authority to an organization many consider to be non-transparent, unaccountable and insular? If the administration insists on a transfer, what guarantees, capabilities and conditions first should be demanded and stress-tested by the global multi-stakeholder community?
This discussion began with the surprise announcement by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an agency within the Department of Commerce, which asked ICANN to develop a proposal to transition NTIA's role as "the historic steward of the Domain Name System (DNS)." The announcement came as a shock to many who follow Internet governance issues and others who depend upon the Internet to communicate freely or conduct commerce around the world.
Indeed, NTIA's announcement appeared to directly contravene long-standing positions of both the legislative and executive branches that the United States should retain its stewardship in overseeing the management of the Internet for the benefit of users worldwide.
Since this announcement, the administration's process and the factors it weighed preceding this decision have not been fully disclosed. However, evidence suggests that the proposal to transition the responsibility for administering changes to all top-level domains, as well as serving as the historic guarantor of the DNS, was dictated not by technical considerations but rather in response to political motives. Moreover, questions persist as to whether the Obama Administration had the authority to commence such a transition without congressional oversight and approval in the first place.
In its original press release and subsequent communications, NTIA referred to two congressional resolutions, S.Con.Res.50 and H.Con.Res.127, which were passed by the 112th Congress. These resolutions affirmed House and Senate opposition to attempts by foreign governments and inter-governmental organizations to assume control over the Internet and generally endorsed the multi-stakeholder model of Internet governance. These resolutions were specifically intended to signal U.S. opposition to efforts by other nations to enlist the United Nations and empower the International Telecommunications Union as the global regulator of the Internet.
However, neither resolution mentioned ICANN, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions that NTIA now proposes to transfer oversight over, or contained a suggestion, explicit or otherwise, that the United States should contemplate surrendering stewardship over the administration of these critical functions to ICANN or any other entity. In fact, two other resolutions passed in 2005, H.Con.Res.268 and S.Res.323, affirmed that operation and management of the Internet's domain name and addressing system should remain under the oversight of the United States. The administration's practice of playing fast and loose with clear statements of Congressional intent is not the way to inspire confidence, build support or work towards achieving consensus.
Serious questions remain about the wisdom of ceding this authority, as well as the specifics of any transition. Our committees have been conducting oversight of ICANN and we will continue to closely examine the processes of the United States government and ICANN as these transition discussions continue.
We welcome NTIA Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information Larry Strickling's recent acknowledgements that there are no hard and fast deadlines for completing this process. If the administration is determined to give up oversight of ICANN and the IANA contract, permanent improvements to ICANN's accountability and transparency are critical to building public and congressional trust for any proposed transition. Any consideration of such a transition must be done carefully and in close coordination with Congress, rather than in a unilateral way. Further, we encourage members of the public and the many constituencies with interests in this process to make their voices and concerns heard. We also encourage ICANN to ensure that whatever results from this process shows that the outcome emanated from a true bottom-up multi-stakeholder process and was neither imposed on nor unduly influenced by ICANN's leaders, staff, or members of its board.
The U.S. has served as a critical and responsible backstop against censorship and threats to openness and free speech on the Internet. As a result, the Internet has thrived. We must ensure that these principles remain intact for all Internet users across the globe. The future of the Internet as a medium for free speech, the flow of ideas and global commerce is at stake, and must be protected.
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) is Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
News Virginian: Goodlatte to chair Judiciary Committee for another two years
By Bob Stuart
November 20, 2014 | Hyperlink
Sixth District Rep. Bob Goodlatte will serve another two years as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
Goodlatte's chairmanship selection for the 114th Congress was announced on Wednesday after the House Republican Conference confirmed the GOP Steering Committee's recommendation.
Goodlatte, R-Roanoke, who will begin his 12th term in Congress in January, said he was pleased with the progress of the committee during the past two years.
"I am proud of the numerous legislative accomplishments we had in the 113th Congress, including the House passage of the bipartisan USA Freedom Act, ending bulk collection of data by the government and reforming our nation's intelligence-gathering programs, the bipartisan Innovation Act, which combats the problem of abusive patient litigation, numerous bills aimed at reducing burdensome regulations that are stifling economic growth and legislation to reduce mandatory sanctions for attorneys who file frivioulous lawsuits,'' Goodlatte said in a press release.
The congressman said he is focused on a continued pursuit of a pro-growth agenda that would create jobs and make America more competitive.
Over the past year, Goodlatte has convened Judiciary Committee hearings on executive power use by President Obama. Numerous constitutional experts have testified about the overreach of executive power by the president.
On Wednesday, Goodlatte and Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, wrote the president and asked him to not execute an executive order on immigration.
"Something as important as changing our immigration laws cannot be forced by unilateral action by the president,'' the letter said. "That's not the way our system of government works."
The letter further states that unilateral action by Obama will "perpetuate and exacerbate'' a cycle of unlawful entry into the United States. The two congressmen ask Obama to work with Congress on legislation to "address our broken immigration system."
They also ask the president "secure the border, enforce our immigration laws in the interior of the United States and build a broad consensus for immigration reform." Otherwise, the lawmakers say "we will be forced to use the tools afforded to Congress by the Constitution to stop your administration from successfully carrying out your plan."
Wall Street Journal: Congress Will Fight Obama's Power Grab
By Bob Goodlatte
November 19, 2014 | Hyperlink
President Obama seems poised to announce one of the biggest executive power grabs in American history. He is expected to declare unilaterally that millions of unlawful immigrants can stay in the U.S. without facing the consequences of violating immigration laws. Congress has not agreed on how to reform the immigration system, but the president has decided to ignore the Constitution and alter the law without new statutes. This is a slap in the face of the American people, who voted on Nov. 4 to change the way Washington operates.
The Constitution is clear: It is Congress's duty to write the nation's laws and, once they are enacted, it is the president's responsibility to enforce them. Article II, Section 3, of the Constitution requires the president to "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." This clause compels the president to enforce all constitutionally valid acts of Congress, regardless of his administration's view of their wisdom. That is a duty, not an option.
Law-enforcement agencies have the power to exercise prosecutorial discretion—deciding whether to enforce the law against particular individuals—but this power must be used judiciously. As Doris Meissner, commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service during the Clinton administration, told her agency in a 2000 memo, such discretion is not "an invitation to violate or ignore the law."
Mr. Obama's threatened action amounts to ignoring the law, as an estimated four million to five million unlawful immigrants—close to half of the illegal population—stand to benefit from the decree. That does not constitute faithful execution of the law.
The president justifies his action by saying that he is simply prioritizing immigration enforcement. But there is a difference between setting priorities—say, focusing more resources on special cases—and setting enforcement-free zones for millions of unlawful immigrants. This proclamation will entice countless people around the world to come to the U.S. illegally, just like the government's Deferred Action for the Childhood Arrivals program that President Obama signed two years ago encouraged tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors and families from Central America to make the dangerous trek to the U.S.
President Obama also claims that these actions are nothing new. Previous presidents from both parties have provided immigration relief to groups of aliens, sometimes abusing prosecutorial discretion and stretching presidential authority. However, far fewer people were affected in those cases. And the actions usually were a response to an emergency in a foreign country—thus they were in keeping with the executive branch's broad constitutional authority to conduct foreign affairs.
Chinese nationals, for example, were protected from deportation after the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989. Haitian orphans who were in the process of being adopted by U.S. citizens when the devastating earthquake of 2010 struck were granted humanitarian parole to come to the U.S. Circumstances matter, and without any crisis in a foreign country to justify his actions, President Obama has exceeded his constitutional powers.
The president's vow to override U.S. immigration laws by executive fiat is not without cost. By acting lawlessly and assuming legislative power, the president is driving full speed toward a constitutional crisis, threatening to unravel the nation's system of checks and balances.
Mr. Obama's planned action also undermines the American people's trust that the president is committed to enforcing the country's immigration laws. Americans are deeply concerned about the country's direction—their statement on Nov. 4 was a firm rejection of the Obama administration's policies. Rather than listen and change course, the president is doubling down on his failed policies and sending an unmistakable message to the nation: He will do what he wants, when he wants, without regard for the Constitution or what the American people desire.
A unilateral presidential edict awarding amnesty to millions of unlawful immigrants will also severely damage chances of enacting legislation to reform the immigration system. Rather than work constructively with the new Congress in January, the president is poisoning his relationship with lawmakers by acting on his own.
Mr. Obama's plan to violate the Constitution must be stopped. The Framers wisely gave Congress many tools to guard against the executive branch accumulating too much power. My colleagues in both the House and the Senate will take inventory of the tools afforded to Congress by the Constitution, such as the power of the purse and the authority to write legislation, to stop the president's unconstitutional actions from being implemented.
The debate in Congress over the past two years has shown that there is a willingness and need to reform our nation's immigration system. While opinions differ on exactly how to amend the laws, one thing is certain: The president has no authority to make this decision on his own.
The Hill: Make Internet access tax ban permanent
By Bob Goodlatte
July 15, 2014 | Hyperlink
At the tender age of 16, a young man and his family emigrated from the Soviet Union with only $300 dollars to their name.
During their first few weeks in the United States, this young man's family purchased a computer for him under the impression that "access to a personal computer would do something good for [him]."
During the next 10 years, this young man – Max Levchin – founded, developed and sold PayPal for $1.5 billion.
Levchin's story exemplifies our new digital economy where computer and internet access serve as a gateway – if not a necessity – for the American Dream. Millions of Americans now rely on the internet to run their businesses, to educate themselves, to seek new opportunities, to research and write, and to communicate with family and friends.
The beauty of this new medium of opportunity is that it does not matter what you look like or where you come from to access the tools to succeed.
However, one topic of debate on Capitol Hill has been whether to let states increase barriers to entry by taxing access to the internet.
Over the past 14 years, Congress has extended ban after ban on states taxing internet access. The measures have been met with enormous bipartisan support – only five "no" votes were cast in the history of these renewals in the House and Senate.
But now some argue that the time is up for an internet tax break and that states need the money more than American consumers.
On the House Judiciary Committee where I serve as chairman, we have been examining the issue of internet access tax and recently approved a bill, the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act (H.R. 3086), that would make the ban on internet access taxes permanent.
Time is short, the ban expires on November 1. Today the House is scheduled to vote on the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act to make the ban permanent.
If the ban on internet access taxes is not renewed, the tax burden on Americans will be substantial. It is estimated that internet access tax rates will be more than twice the average rate of all other goods and services. Additionally, low-income households will pay 10 times as much as high-income households as a share of income.
The last thing that we need is another bill on the doorsteps of the American people. A tax on internet access would burden the millions of Americans who rely on the internet to conduct business, communicate, educate, and live.
We should strive to increase access, to increase growth and to increase opportunity. Now is the time: a permanent ban on taxation of internet access is crucial for fostering the potential of the next Max Levchin and protecting the future of our digital economy.
News Virginian: Goodlatte to lead congressional delegation to U.S. border
By Bob Stuart
June 30, 2014 | Hyperlink
Sixth District Rep. Bob Goodlatte will receive a close up look later this week at the flow of illegal immigration at the southern border he and the House Judiciary Committee have been investigating.
The congressman was interviewed during a stop Monday at Blue Ridge Beverage in Waynesboro.
Goodlatte, R-Roanoke, will lead a congressional delegation Wednesday and Thursday to the Rio Grande Valley in Texas to witness the entry of illegal immigrants into the country.
Goodlatte, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, held a hearing on border conditions and the rapid flow of children and adults from Central America into the U.S. last week.
After receiving testimony from representatives of the Border Patrol Union and U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement, Goodlatte said the testimony "showed the magnitude of the problem."
"We cannot have people illegally entering the country,'' said Goodlatte, who said both children and adults are coming into the U.S. illegally and at rising rates from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
Goodlatte said the ongoing problem is the failure of the Obama administration to adequately enforce immigration laws.
On Monday, the president issued a statement on border security and immigration reform.
He criticized the House for failing to hold a vote on immigration legislation passed a year ago by the Senate, and also asked congressional leaders to work with him to address the crisis at the border.
Obama also said he was directing the secretary of Homeland Security and Attorney General Eric Holder to immediately direct additional resources to the U.S. border. "Protecting public safety and deporting dangerous criminals has been and will remain the top priority,'' the president said.
On a separate subject, the congressman said President Obama has been guilty of executive overreach. He said the president has exceeded his authority on immigration, the Environmental Protection Agency and other matters.
The congressman said the alternative is for Congress to look at ways to limit the president's power. That includes the filing of lawsuits against the president and last week's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the president had exceeded his constitutional powers with 2012 appointments to the National Labor Relations Board.
Goodlatte spent about an hour Monday touring Blue Ridge Beverage, a local business that distributes beer, Red Bull and water to a 12-county area, said Tom Parker, the Blue Ridge general manager.
Parker said the company employs 88 at its South Oak Lane facility.
Goodlatte said he has "a longstanding tradition'' of visiting businesses in his congressional district. He said he is eager to see how government regulations are impacting the businesses.


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Siren FAQ:
...Wait, you made this up!?
Hahaha, yep! Syranium is a race I came up with for the LoZ (specifically WW) universe. I took the Greek Mythology on Sirens (the mermaid-like ones, not the bird-like ones) and added my own things to it.
Can I make one too?
Yes, this is an open species, anyone is allowed to make one!
I just ask that if the siren character you're creating was meant to be the ones I came up with, that you follow the basic things about them. Otherwise it'd probably just be considered as a random mermaid, personafied fish, or something else that's not really the kind that fits with the idea of these particular sirens. You can get an idea on how to design them by looking at my Coral, or browsing at others my friends have made! Just...don't flat-out copy anyone, haha.
This pictures (above) also has the basic general look. Use these as guides as well.
I have questions about your sirens!
I'd be happy to answer anything you wanna know about them!
But I do encourage that you read the information deviation I made about them (the one above this FAQ) first, it might answer your question and save me time on answering stuff I've already answered. I also have lots of info here! icy-snowflakes.deviantart.com/… But if it's something I did not cover, or you want further depth on something I did talk about, then ask away! I do not bite, and am always happy to talk about them!
Well, I read that Sirens were more bird-like.
I know, and I don't care. There are old depictions of mermaid-like sirens out there too, and that's the ones I chose to go with. Plus their old form WAS based on the feathered-form, but they later on turned into the mermaid-like ones to adapt to a flood. So stop trying to "correct" me, please and thank you.


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An Evolutionary Psychology
Charles Darwin's experimental research in psychology is surprisingly little known and less understood. One can read the most thorough available histories ( Boakes, 1984; Richards, 1987) and not even find a reference to Darwin's many behavioral experiments or to the theoretical approach that motivated his work (see Reed, 1982c and forthcoming for further historical discussion). This is all the more unfortunate, as Darwin's work still offers important insights.
Darwin treated both behavior and awareness as integral parts of animal life and as subject to the same evolutionary pattern of variation and selection as all other aspects of the living world. He rejected his friend Huxley's theory of animals as automata, and he believed not only that animals had mental states but that these states could be known through a combination of observation, experiment, and ecological analysis. Darwin did not explicitly develop the core ideas of ecological psychology, the concepts of ecological resources for behavior and awareness (what I here term affordances and information), but he came surprisingly close to doing so. Many of the ideas discussed in this chapter are, at the very least, implicit throughout his work on behavior and evolution. Moreover, Darwin invented several basic experimental procedures for analyzing how animals regulate their encounters with their surroundings. It is this Darwin, the experimental behaviorist and evolutionist, who is surprisingly still unknown, more than a century after his death. A convenient overview of his efforts at creating an experimental and evolutionary science of behavior can be found by reviewing his studies of earthworm activities and awareness, as I now proceed to do.
Earthworms spend most of their time burrowing in the ground. Because worms are covered with a layer of sensitive skin, this habitat can be challenging for them. Worms whose skin becomes desiccated through heat or evaporation will die. Worms avoid desiccation through a number of behavioral adaptations that were first studied by Charles Darwin ( 1881; see Reed, 1982c). This case is so interesting in part because earthworms have neither separate sensory organs (although one might well count their entire epi-


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"Biloxi Blues is both heartwarming and funny."
Neil Simon's hit play follows the adventures of Eugene Morris Jerome and his fellow Army inductees as they struggle through basic training near Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1943. An aspiring writer who sees himself as an outsider observing the craziness around him, Eugene hopes to somehow remain "neutral … like Switzerland." He spends much of his free time recounting conversations and impressions in his journal, feeling a little ashamed for betraying the "secret and private thoughts'' of his fellow soldiers.
Biloxi Blues is a comedy about young men going off to war. These men are universal soldiers facing the same fears, anxieties, and loneliness that grip all young recruits about to encounter the ultimate test of combat. Mr. Simon brings his great sense of humor and humanity to every word of this magnificent play.
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Amazing wireless sound in a small, portable form factorthis will be your takeaway when you listen to music on the JBL Flip II. This is the latest wireless Bluetooth speaker from the American audio electronics company currently owned by Harman International. Its classy-looking, for a start. And its fairly simple to pair it with a mobile phone, laptop or a tablet. The sound emitted is hugely impressive for its size and price. The speaker retails for Rs 8,990.
JBL was founded in 1946 by James Bullough Lansing. Their primary products are loudspeakers and associated electronics. There are two independent divisions within the companyJBL Consumer and JBL Professional. The former produces audio equipment for the home market while the latter produces
professional equipment for the studio, installed sound, tour sound, portable sound (production and DJ), and cinema markets.
Back to the Flip II. It is true that only full-fledged speaker systems are capable of emitting loud and rich, quality sound, but for sheer convenience nowadays, most people store their music collection in their personal devices such as a mobile phone, tablet or a laptop. Bluetooth speakers are in demand because they are affordable, easy-to-carry and have a heady mix of hardware and software to stream high quality sound from wireless phones and tablets.
Frankly, the Flip II is much better than other Bluetooth speakers in the same price range, having a big sound impact than most of the other similarly priced speakers I have played around within recent months. It performs very well, has a great build quality and decent battery life.
In tech parlance, the Flip II uses two drivers and a built-in bass port for powerful bass that adds dynamic depth to your listening experience along with crisp vocals all in a speaker that fits in your hand. And because sometimes your phone is for more than music, the Flip II has a built in microphones and SoundClear echo and noise cancellation technologies so you can
use Flip II as a hands free speakerphone and never miss a word. Like most Bluetooth speakers, the Flip II has a rated range of around 30 feet.
In the box, youll get a solo Flip II portable stereo speaker, a USB adapter and USB cable and a carrying case, plus a quick-start guide. In terms of design, it is cylindrical therefore, you can place it either vertically or horizontally. The speaker measures 65 mm x 160


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6 Times Elvis Andrus And Adrian Beltre Proved They're Best FriendsIf you didn't know by now, Texas Rangers' Elvis Andrus and Adrian Beltre are pretty tight. From their back-and-forth banter to fooling each other on the field, there's no pair more fun to watch. Need proof?
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Finally, a sweet compilation of some of the best numbers from latter day Motown girl group High Inergy – sunny soul that shines especially brightly with the benefit of hindsight! They managed to hit the charts early on, but it's pretty easy to see how these ladies could be unjustly overlooked in the grand scheme. They signed the Motown in the later 70s, after the Supremes and other formative girl groups had long ago finished blazing the trails, plus Motown was at a real crossroads in terms of it's honoring its iconic history, while still navigating contemporary trends. Meanwhile, High Inergy recorded some wonderful stuff – with some late disco era string-laden production as well as tender ballads – both focusing on the sweet vocals and songcraft, rather than trying too hard to be trendy. The original albums may have been hit & miss, but Expansion does a terrific job of treasure hunting – every track here is lovely! 20 tracks in all: Includes "Lovin' Fever", "First Impressions", "I'm A Believer", "Goin' Thru The Motions", "Cold This Be Love", "Devotion", "Just A Touch Away" feat Smokey Robinson, "Somebody, Somewhere", "Hold On To My Love" feat Switch, "All Of You", "Journey To Love". "He's A Pretender" and more. © 1996-2016, Dusty Groove, Inc.
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