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Tom Ridge: Congress has 'failed' first responders
August 19, 2011
FROM NEXTGOV
The nation's first Homeland Security secretary says that lawmakers have "failed" first responders in the years after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by not moving forward on policy that would facilitate communication during an emergency. Tom Ridge, in an interview with AOL Government published on Friday, said that Congress's ...
Walden gives FCC a mixed grade
August 3, 2011
FROM NEXTGOV
Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., chairman of the House Communications and Technology Subcommittee, gives the FCC a top grade on its broadband report released Tuesday. "The process leading to the FCC's report on 'Measuring Broadband America' was exemplary. The Commission selected a commercial vendor through open, competitive bids; used a transparent ...
NSA nominee: Patriot Act may allow cell phone tracking
July 27, 2011
FROM NEXTGOV
The Patriot Act may have given the federal government powers to use cell phone data to track Americans inside the United States, the general counsel for the National Security Agency said on Tuesday. The Wall Street Journal quotes Matthew Olsen, who has been nominated to lead the National Counterterrorism Center, ...
Pentagon worries about space industry with end of shuttle program
July 19, 2011
FROM NEXTGOV
As the space-shuttle era draws to a close and budget pressures threaten to constrain spending, a senior Defense Department official said on Tuesday that the government needs to take steps to protect the aerospace industrial base and to preserve the United States' technological edge in space. The Defense Department has ...
Obama makes a long-distance call ... to space
July 18, 2011
FROM NEXTGOV
Throughout the history of the human space-flight program, presidents have made the often obligatory long-distance call to spacecraft orbiting and traveling to the Moon. Today's call from President Obama to the crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station, though, was a little different. With the end ...
Hackers attack Senate website
June 14, 2011
FROM NEXTGOV
According to multiple reports, a group of hackers known as Lulz Security said on Twitter that it had breached the Senate's website. The group said in a release that they would release a "small" amount of data from the Senate's homepage "in an attempt to help them fix their issues." ...
FCC commission member Baker to resign
May 11, 2011
FROM NEXTGOV
Meredith Attwell Baker, one of two Republicans on the five-member Federal Communications Commission, abruptly announced on Wednesday that she is leaving the agency as of June 3. Earlier, the Wall Street Journal reported that Baker was taking a job in Comcast's Washington lobbying shop. "After seven years of public service, ...
Done deal: Congress, White House reach agreement
April 8, 2011
FROM NEXTGOV
After days of painstaking negotiations and barbed insults, Democratic and Republican congressional leaders announced on Friday night that they had come up with a stopgap measure to keep the federal government from shutting down. "Senator Reid and I and the White House have come to an agreement to cut spending ...
One-stop-shop on bioterrorism at HHS may be split up
June 21, 2002 So far, the government's efforts to combat bioterrorism seem to have largely escaped the problems of overlapping jurisdictions that have plagued other counter-terrorism functions. Perhaps that's because bioterrorism is essentially the responsibility of one agency: the Department of Health and Human Services. After some initial missteps in dealing with anthrax, ...
The Earlybird: Today's headlines
August 2, 2001 Patients' rights deal, ANWR drilling approval, military closures, population prediction, Florida poll, Carnahan challenger, Feinstein rebuke, Levy tip: President Bush and Rep. Charlie Norwood, R-Ga., reached a deal on patients' rights legislation Wednesday, the Dallas Morning News reports. But allies of Norwood from both parties "said late Wednesday that they ...
