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Fixing the US Attorney Appointment Process
May 22nd, 2007 by Jesse Lee @ The GavelThe House has just debated the Preserving United States Attorney Independence Act of 2007, which has already passed the Senate and would revoke the power of the President to appoint interim US Attorneys for extended periods, effectively bypassing Senate confirmation. On March 23, the House had passed a somewhat stronger bill (H.R. 580), which included the same repeal of the 2006 provision as the Senate bill, but also included a provision preventing the Administration from using the Vacancies Act to allow the Attorney General to make continuous interim appointments of U.S. Attorneys. The House passed H.R. 580 by a strong bipartisan vote of 329 to 78, but Republicans have blocked H.R. 580 in the Senate. Therefore, the House will pass S. 214 to get a bill to the President’s desk.
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Spyware bill gains momentum
Ruth Mantell, MarketWatch - May 2, 2007 The GavelConsumers may get federal protection from computer criminals who steal their personal information as Congress seeks to safeguard the growing Internet commerce market.
On Wednesday, members of the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary approved by voice vote to favorably report the “Internet Spyware Prevention Act of 2007″ — without any amendments — to the House floor, pushing it one step closer to becoming law. A day before, the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security approved the bill.
“Spyware is a serious and growing problem for American consumers and businesses. Thieves are using spyware to harvest personal information such as Social Security numbers and credit-card numbers for use in a variety of criminal enterprises,” said U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., at the subcommittee hearing.
Spyware is a program placed in a computer through the Internet used to gather information about the computer’s user — without the user’s knowledge. In 2006, consumers spent $2.6 billion trying to block or remove spyware from their computers, according to testimony at the hearing.
The act would impose a prison sentence of up to 5 years for using spyware in committing another federal crime, and up to a 2-year sentence for hacking into a computer and altering its security settings or obtaining personal information with the intent to defraud or injure the person or damage a computer.
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This one falls in to my " dumbest bill " of the day category.
May 22nd, 2007 by Jesse Lee
The House has just debated the No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels (NOPEC) Act of 2007, H.R. 2264, which will enable the Department of Justice to take legal action against foreign nations for participating in oil cartels that drive up oil prices globally and in the United States. This legislation does so by exempting OPEC and other nations from the provisions of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act when acting in a commercial capacity; by making clear that the so-called “Act of State” doctrine does not prevent courts from ruling on antitrust charges brought against foreign governments; and by authorizing the Department of Justice to bring lawsuits in U.S. courts against cartel members.
Let me get this right. We are now going to make changes in a law so that we can sue OPEC? Think about this one folks. The government now wants to be able to sue the countries in the middle east for charging us to much for their oil! Maybe before the Bush administration does this, they should sue our United States oil companies for gouging the consumer at the pumps every time we buy their gasoline!
Our government sues the OPEC members, who in turn cut back on oil production which in turn makes our gas prices go up even more and it also makes the oil companies a shitload of cash. Let us not forget that Bush and his clowns will also make a shitload of cash.
Tags: The House spyware OPEC U.S. Attorneys Bush
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The suing of OPEC looks alot like the new Energy agency and new geospacial agency(ten countries studying arctic gavity) planning to use the Clinton foundation. It's set up like the world bank and maybe that's what Wolfowitz passed on. Private banks giving loans based on savings to foreign energy companies. This opens up foreign energy companies to lawsuits by US banks financing them like the World Bank finances.
The new agencies and the new bank financing of foreign energy companies looks like Plame's Brewster Jennings gone to plan with the democrats and Bill Clinton. Alot of new federal jobs and taking over foreign energy companies interest through their cities mayors(requiring a federal response form those foreign countries), which is national security for those foreign countries.
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