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6 Jun 2012, 10:33 am
National Journal Daily on June 6, 2012 released the following:
“By Sara Sorcher
Many lawmakers were incensed—for differing reasons—by the recent New York Times report detailing how President Obama attempted to derail Iran’s nuclear program by secretly ordering cyberattacks on computer systems that run its enrichment facilities.
Some accused the Obama administration of leaking the information for political gain ahead of an election. Others worried that the attack, apparently the first time… [read post]
14 Feb 2013, 8:59 am
Secretary of State John Kerry -- married to Teresa Heinz Kerry, an heir to the Heinz ketchup fortune -- held $3 million worth of shares in the company last year. [read post]
16 Jun 2010, 4:15 pm
Representative John A. Boehner, the Republican leader, bought stock in BP last year, while other lawmakers sold off BP stock before the oil spill caused the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. [read post]
13 Apr 2011, 4:59 am
Every lover of liberty and the Constitution should be offended by the moniker “Privacy Bill of Rights” appended to regulatory legislation Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and John McCain (R-AZ) introduced yesterday. As C|Net’s Declan McCullagh points out, the legislation exempts the federal government and law enforcement:
[T]he measure applies only to companies and some nonprofit groups, not to the federal, state, and local police agencies that have adopted high-tech surveillance technologies… [read post]
12 Apr 2011, 3:26 pm
4/12/2011
Author:
Aaron Brauer-Rieke
Consumer Privacy
Baseline Privacy Legislation
Today Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and John McCain (R-AZ) released the first comprehensive privacy bill the Senate has seen in more than ten years. (CDT put out a formal statement about… [read post]
29 Jun 2011, 7:37 am
In connection with Harold Koh’s testimony regarding American intervention in Libya yesterday–which Bobby discussed here and here–NPR’s Carrie Johnson reported on Koh’s path to his current views here. The New York Times‘ Jennifer Steinhauer, meanwhile, reports on the Senate Foreign Relation Committee’s successful vote authorizing American intervention in Libya (it passed 14-to-5), as well as on Koh’s testimony before the committee.
Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule have this article… [read post]
15 Sep 2011, 3:08 pm
This post is part of an ACSblog Constitution Week Symposium. By Doug Kendall, President, and Judith Schaeffer, Vice President, Constitutional Accountability Center
As ACS members know, our Constitution is under attack from tea partiers and other self-professed “constitutional conservatives” who have claimed the document as their own and distorted it to support their ideological agenda. Over the past two years, they have made increasingly extreme, and in some cases absurd, claims about our… [read post]
21 Apr 2011, 7:00 am
Last Tuesday, Senators McCain and Kerry announced the introduction of their Internet privacy "Bill of Rights." Three days before the announcement, I appeared on the Blueprint for Wealth radio show to discuss the need for an omnibus federal Internet privacy statute. Obviously, I didn't discuss the Kerry-McCain bill, since it hadn't yet been announced, but I did discuss some of the very problems which that bill seeks to address. Among other things, I pointed out that:
Our existing Internet… [read post]
30 Jun 2011, 1:51 pm
On June 29, 2011, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation convened a hearing entitled “Privacy and Data Security: Protecting Consumers in the Online World.” In opening remarks, Committee Chair Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) highlighted that the hearing would consider both privacy and data security and discussed three bills focused on these issues. First, Senator Rockefeller noted S. 917, the Do-Not-Track Online Act of 2011, a bill he introduced that would allow consumers… [read post]
4 Feb 2010, 7:35 am
Originally posted on Politico.com
By Sen. John F. Kerry, Rep. Bill Delahunt, Kerry Kennedy & Larry Cox
Rita Mahato, a mother of three, works as a health adviser for the Women’s Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC) in Nepal, counseling rape victims and registering cases of domestic violence routinely dismissed by the local police. In June 2007, a mob of more than 60 men surrounded her offices, threatening to rape and kill Rita and her colleagues – demanding that they end their work.… [read post]
17 Mar 2011, 4:37 pm
A group of lawmakers and prominent technology investors are trying to ease bureaucratic hurdles for thousands of foreign-born entrepreneurs. [read post]
15 Mar 2011, 6:11 am
Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat, is likely to introduce a bill to start a national infrastructure bank, reports Heidi Moore of Marketplace. The government would provide the startup funds with the hope that banks and other large investors would pick up the tab for roads, bridges and the like. Read more » [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 3:32 pm
Senators Kerry and McCain, and eight other prominent Senators, introduced a Resolution on Libya today. The Resolution authorizes the President “to continue the limited use of the United States Armed Forces in Libya,” for one year. It also states that Congress “does not support” ground forces. And it requires the President to “consult frequently” with Congress, and in particular to provide a “full and updated explanation of the President’s legal and constitutional rationale for… [read post]
15 Apr 2013, 9:07 am
The numbers of reported infections and deaths from the H7N9 bird flu virus grows, while the economy shows signs of sputtering. [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 7:38 am
John Kerry, aka the Grumpy Tree from the Wizard of Oz, admitted on Meet the Press yesterday that the Democrats’ proposal of extending the Bush tax cuts to only one class of Americans was a political ploy (emphasis added):
The president insisted that we have the votes that we had yesterday so that America could see what [...] [read post]
13 Apr 2011, 10:36 am
Senators Introduce Proposed “Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights Act”This posting was written by Thomas A. Long, Editor of CCH Privacy Law in Marketing.A new comprehensive regulatory framework to protect consumers’ personal information would be established by a Senate Bill unveiled by Senators John Kerry (D-Mass.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) on April 12. If enacted, the proposed “Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights Act of 2011” (S. 799) would regulate the collection, use, and dissemination of… [read post]
25 Jul 2010, 6:25 pm
Excuse me for experiencing a little Schadenfreude here, but William Ahern of the Tax Policy Blog seems to have hoisted yet another rich pro-tax type by his own petard:
In an amusing bit of muckraking, the Boston Herald accuses senior U.S. Senator John Kerry of deliberately avoiding the payment of Massachusetts state sales and excise taxes on his [...] [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 4:05 pm
Kay Bell reports that Theresa Heinz Senator John Kerry will pony up the Massachusetts’ use tax due on his $7 million yacht:
OK, Sen. John Kerry is tired of all the yacht tax questions.
Kerry announced this afternoon that he’s paying all Massachusetts taxes due on his new $7 million yacht even though it’s docked in Rhode Island, where he [...] [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 12:10 pm
John Kerry, the Democratic nominee for President in 2004, paid a lower rate of taxes than Mitt Romney paid in 2010. Of course, we didn’t hear much about Mr. Kerry’s low tax rate from the mainstream press even though, unlike Romney, he thinks the rich are undertaxed. It almost seems unfair to point out that unlike Mr. Romney, who [...] [read post]
4 Feb 2013, 7:04 am
Those who say China has too many railroads and roads should travel in the country this week, when the annual Spring Festival migration by hundreds of millions of people gets under way. [read post]