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CISPA passes House committee, angering privacy activists
The U.S. House Intelligence Committee overwhelmingly passed a cyber-security bill on Wednesday, angering privacy advocates who believe the bill fails to protect critical personal information. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2013,...
Tags: IBM, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011, Adam B. Schiff, U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Mike J. Rogers
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Obama threatens veto of CISPA bill
President Obama threatened on Tuesday to veto a major cyber security bill unless Congress amends it to include more protections for privacy and civil liberties. The veto threat comes just a day before a possible vote in Congress on the Cyber...Tags: U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011, Elections, Politics
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Immigrants in L.A. guardedly optimistic about Senate bill
Under the immigration bill proposed by a bipartisan group of senators, Maria Galvan could achieve her dream of opening a hair salon in Southern California. She has spent more than a decade doing odd jobs, barred from getting the required business...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Career and Workplace, Lobbying, Personal Data Collection, National Security
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L.A. teachers vote 'no confidence' in Supt. Deasy
Los Angeles teachers overwhelmingly expressed "no confidence" in L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy in the first vote of its kind in the nation's second-largest school system. In the weeklong referendum that ended Wednesday, 91% of the participating teachers...
Tags: Unions, Teachers, Teaching and Learning, J. Paul Getty Trust, Career and Workplace
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Armenian genocide recognition overdue, congressman says
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), lead sponsor of the Armenian genocide resolution in Congress, delivered his remarks in Armenian on the House floor Wednesday as he honored the estimated 1.5 million Armenians who were massacred in 1915 at the hands of Ottoman...Tags: Genocide, Turkey, Hate Crimes, U.S. Congress, Adam Schiff
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PASSINGS: Robert W. Edgar, Chrissy Amphlett, Robert Earl Holding
Robert W. Edgar Six-term Pennsylvania congressman Robert W. Edgar, 69, who represented Pennsylvania for six terms in the House of Representatives, served as president of the Claremont School of Theology and went on to lead the public interest group...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Obituaries, Government, National Government, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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Vicente Fox to Congress: Rethink that wall
Throughout 2001, President George W. Bush and I spent time negotiating an important bilateral agreement on immigration policies and programs. We optimistically pieced together an innovative framework, and were close to reaching our goals, when the...
Tags: U.S. Senate, White House, U.S. Congress, Mexico, George W. Bush
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Democrats, not Republicans, should be worrying about their future
Since Mitt Romney lost to President Obama on Nov. 6, the conventional wisdom has been that the Republican Party is in trouble. The less conventional truth is that it is the Democrats whose chances many be more bleak. Yes, Republicans are currently...
Tags: U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, White House, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Max Baucus
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John McCain, Arnold Schwarzenegger talk immigration reform at USC
Comprehensive immigration reform will pass the House of Representatives if reluctant Republicans are convinced that it is a matter of political survival, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said at USC on Tuesday. In conversations with other lawmakers, McCain...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Government, Antonio Villaraigosa, AEG, John McCain
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Group of female politicians rally around Greuel
With Los Angeles facing the imminent possibility of having no female elected leaders at City Hall, some of California's most prominent female politicians joined forces Thursday to promote Wendy Greuel's mayoral candidacy. Democratic congressional leader...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Local Elections, Wendy Greuel, Religion and Belief, Jan Perry
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Connecticut lawmakers approve sweeping new gun law
Lawmakers in Connecticut, the site of the Dec. 14 massacre that renewed a national debate over gun control, passed a bipartisan measure that increases background checks for buyers and bans the sale of semiautomatic rifles like the one used in Newtown&...
Tags: Dannel P. Malloy , Adam Lanza, Justice System, U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress
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Alaska Rep. Don Young rebuked over slur
WASHINGTON - One of the House of Representatives’ longest-serving Republicans now says he meant “no disrespect” when he used the term “wetbacks” to describe migrant workers his family once employed. His comment, which...
Tags: Don Young, John Boehner, U.S. Congress, Same-Sex Marriage, Racism
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