Surveillance bill delayed until 2008
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The Senate late Monday delayed its consideration of a vote on a new government eavesdropping bill until January.
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Using the Freedom of Information Act to get information from the government is like waiting for ketchup to flow from a new bottle. Both often take longer than they are supposed to.
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The next version of the accounting and management business application won't ship until 2008.
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Although Congress has tackled a number of tech-related bills this year, a number of measures have yet to be acted on.
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Republican senators are trying to delay a bill that would overhaul the U.S. patent system.
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Following an appeal from President George W. Bush on Monday, the U.S. Congress has granted a temporary extension to a controversial law that allows the government to conduct telephone surveillance on suspected terrorists.On Tuesday Congress voted to extend for 15 days The Protect America Act, which allows the U.S. National Security Agency to intercept phone calls and e-mail of suspected terrorists without first obtaining a court warrant. The act was due to expire Friday, but Bush called for its extension Monday during his final State of the Union address.The debate to extend the act was led by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat. His efforts to extend the act for 30 days began Monday; by late Tuesday, Congress decided on a 15-day extension by a voice vote. Some Democratic lawmakers were in favor of only a temporary extension because they wanted time to consider a more permanent measure.Bush and some Republican lawmakers were hoping for longer extension of the act, which also provides legal protection for telecommunications carriers that are cooperating with the NSA. Without protection, the carriers face privacy lawsuits from those under surveillance.The Protect America Act has been surrounded by controversy since Bush signed it in August. Congress is expected to continue debating whether to renew the act or to give carriers immunity from legal proceedings -- or compromise on some combination of both -- during the 15-day extension period.
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Efforts stalled in the U.S. House of Representatives to pass a bill that would make it illegal to obtain private telephone records surreptitiously, as was done in the Hewlett-Packard Co. scandal.
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The White House is nearing an agreement with Congress on legislation that would write President Bush&#039;s warrantless surveillance program into law, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman said Sunday.
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Testing of a computer screening system for air travelers may be delayed because the program has not yet received required approvals from the Government Accountability Office. -The Washington Post
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A long-delayed bill overhauling the nation&#39;s intelligence agencies is nearing passage now that President Bush and House Armed Services chairman Duncan Hunter have endorsed
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A plan to use U.S. spy satellites for domestic security and law-enforcement missions is moving forward after being delayed for months because of privacy and civil liberties concerns.
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WASHINGTON The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Michael Powell, expects to postpone a vote until early next year on his plan to convert the US television system to digital technology by January 2009, a Powell aide has said.
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As Democrats and Republicans disagreed on the accomplishments of the 108th Congress, one thing is certain: Hundreds of programs &#151; from highway building to welfare reform &#151; are being kept on life support through temporary measures because lawmakers failed to meet deadline after deadline for renewing them.
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President Bush said Thursday he'll delay his trip to Africa if necessary to get the House to finish a bill governing U.S. eavesdropping on the phone calls and e-mails of suspected terrorists.
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Plans for a wider rollout of identity cards to British nationals appear to have been delayed for three years.
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A plan to tighten U.S. borders by requiring passports or tamper-resistant identification cards from everyone entering the country has been delayed.
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The Senate yesterday left the fate of a new electronic surveillance law backed by the Bush administration up in the air, as a Republican-led effort to cut off a Democrat-led debate and proceed to a vote on the bill failed, mostly along party lines.