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21 Jul 2014, 4:50 pm by Jim Walker
(Jay) Rockefeller, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, announced the witness list for its Full Committee hearing this Wednesday, July 23, 2014, at 2:45 p.m. titled “The Cruise Passenger Protection Act (S.1340): Improving Consumer Protections for Cruise Passengers. [read post]
22 Jul 2012, 9:05 pm by Rick Hasen
  A snippet: Another senior Democrat, Senate Commerce Chairman Jay Rockefeller (W.Va.), said the filibuster is a useful rule that Democrats may not want to alter if they return to the minority. [read post]
19 Oct 2009, 5:45 am
Rockefeller also said he would back a plan, in separate legislation, to repeal the insurance industries' antitrust exemption. [read post]
25 Feb 2008, 5:30 am
"Scare Tactics and Our Surveillance Bill": Jay Rockefeller, Patrick Leahy, Silvestre Reyes, and John Conyers have this op-ed today in The Washington Post. [read post]
17 Nov 2011, 6:41 pm by Doug Isenberg
Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, said he would hold a hearing to look into reports that Facebook tracks its users on the Web after they log out. [read post]
21 Aug 2014, 6:39 am by Peter Hunt
The man behind this hearing was Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) the committee chairman. [read post]
27 Jul 2012, 5:00 am
Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) reintroduced, for a third time, the "Robert C. [read post]
4 Aug 2013, 8:00 am by Jim Walker
As promised, Senator Jay Rockefeller announced that he has introduced legislation seeking to eliminate the Section 883 exemption for cruise industry income derived from cruises that embark or disembark passengers in the U.S. [read post]
29 Sep 2009, 9:25 am
Public Option: Just a Phone Call Away Thanks again to Robert Reich for calling attention to the importance of a public plan option (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/the-public-option-lives-o_b_302038.html) and the work of Charles Schumer (New York) and Jay Rockefeller (West Virginia) to make sure... [read post]
5 Dec 2013, 10:20 pm by Rebecca C. Morgan
The Center for Medicare Advocacy has sent out a save the date for its first annual National Voices of Medicare Summit & Senator Jay Rockefeller Lecture. [read post]
29 Apr 2010, 1:38 pm by Doug
Senate Commerce Chairman John (Jay) Rockefeller, D-W.Va., attempted to assuage industry concerns over the scope of his panel’s cybersecurity bill, saying the legislation does not seek to give the government new emergency powers or the authority to dictate business operations. [read post]
18 Jul 2008, 6:14 pm
Senators Max Baucus (D - Montana) and Jay Rockefeller (D - West Virginia) have introduced a joint resolution expressing congressional disapproval of the Bush administration's limits on expansions of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) issued in the infamous... [read post]
24 Jul 2007, 8:47 am
Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) has introduced the Protecting Children from Indecent Programming Act, in response to the recent decision by the Second Circuit, which struck down the FCC's new policy with regard to fleeting expletives. [read post]
23 Feb 2013, 12:48 pm by Jim Walker
 As Senator Rockefeller said to the cruise lines last year "You Are A World Unto Yourselves." [read post]
13 Aug 2007, 12:32 pm
First, note this mention of Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Jay Rockefeller from West Virginia: Instead of answering these questions, the administration has done its best to ensure that everyone stays confused. [read post]
31 Oct 2007, 7:46 am
And today, as Glenn Greenwald discusses, Senator Jay Rockefeller reaches a new disgraceful low, as he argues for total disrespect for the rule of law: Today there is significant debate about whether the underlying program -- the president's warrantless surveillance plan -- was legal or violated constitutional rights. [read post]