WASHINGTON -- One week after Sony BMG Music was caught placing hidden copy-protection software on the computers of unsuspecting CD buyers, a House subcommittee opened hearings on a bill that would allow consumers to make a limited number of persona WASHINGTON -- One week...
Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) says he may introduce legislation that would require integrated broadband companies, such as AOL Time Warner, to give content providers unfettered network access to offer interactive-TV services. The bill would strengthen Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) says he may introduce...
WASHINGTON - It took Congress 62 years to make sweeping changes in telecommunications policy. Now some lawmakers want to make a few more in the next nine months. For Congress to move a second bill, lawmakers will evidently have to overcome fatigu ...
WASHINGTON -- Reps. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Rick Boucher (D-Va.) asked the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission last ... WASHINGTON -- Reps. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Rick Boucher (D-Va.) asked the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission last...
WASHINGTON -- Digital television might make for sharp sound and pristine pictures, but it's making a mess of copyright law and splintering the cable, broadcast and consumer-electronics industries. In the midst of it all is Congress, which has ...
Washington -- A House draft bill would require cable operators to contribute revenue from cable-modem services to the federal program that subsidizes affordable telecommunications services in rural areas of the United States. The cable propos Washington -- A...
WASHINGTON -- The leaders of Verizon Communications Inc. and SBC Communications Inc. last Tuesday told a Senate committee that they have no intention of blocking competing voice-over-Internet protocol service providers. "We are not going WASHINGTON -- The leaders...
WASHINGTON -- Broadcasters are pressuring movie and television producers to ensure that digital broadcast signals can't be repeatedly copied or loaded onto the Internet. In a recent letter, National Association of Broadcasters president Edwar WASHINGTON -- Broadcasters are...
House and Senate conferees made their first real progress last week toward reconciling a final version of satellite TV reform. The Senate on Thursday offered the House its preferred version of the bill; the House was expected to offer its response House and...
Cable Bills in Limbo WASHINGTON - As Congress was trying to navigate several key bills through the legislative process before its targeted adjournment by Thanksgiving, it left a number of telecommunications bills by the roadside. ...
WASHINGTON -- The cable industry could face telco competition in one year instead of two, but otherwise emerged unscathed as two House committees last week approved legislation intended to produced head-to-head competition between cable and local tel WASHINGTON -- The cable industry could face telco competition...
Washington - The cable industry was happier with last year's Senate bill than the Republican-sponsored measure voted out of committee two weeks ago. On March 23, the Senate Commerce Committee voted 17-2 for a bill that would, among other things, Washington...
Re-Reg Talks Start As Congress Returns WASHINGTON - A cable bill tackling rate regulation, program access and entry of the telephone companies into the cable business is in the works and is expected to be offered in February, Rep. Rick Boucher ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The following is a statement Duke Energy Chairman, President and CEO Jim Rogers gave today in response to Congressmen Rick Boucher and John Dingell's Legislative Discussion Draft to address climate change issued by the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee. (Logo:...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Six individuals and companies were recognized last evening at GridWeek 2008 (http://www.gridweek.com/) for their vision and contributions toward advancing the smart grid. Recipients including Congressman Rick Boucher; IBM; Eric Lightner of the Dept. of Energy; Steve Hauser of the GridWise Alliance and GridPoint; Eric...
WASHINGTON -- Citizens Against Government Waste CAGW today released its preliminary analysis of the House version of the Fiscal 2009 Commerce, Justice, Science CJS Appropriations Act. The top five porkers are CJS Appropriations Subcommittee member Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) with $9.95 million; CJS Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Alan Mollohan...
"We urge the US to do its utmost to wrap up work on its domestic climate legislation by the December 2009 United Nations summit in Copenhagen." A plea from Italian Socialist MEP Guido Sacconi, who led a delegation of ten deputies to Washington, on...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) has been the sole obstacle to passing a bipartisan bill to modernize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. That bill, which passed the Senate by an overwhelming 68-to-29 margin with both Clinton and Obama not voting, passed the Senate February 12. The Senate bill...
"We urge the US to do its utmost to wrap up work on its domestic climate legislation by the December 2009 United Nations summit in Copenhagen." A plea from Italian Socialist MEP Guido Sacconi, who led a delegation of ten deputies to Washington, on...
The ITER Organization and the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN have signed a Cooperation Agreement. The Agreement provides the opportunity for CERN and ITER to co-operate not only in the fields of technology such as superconductors, magnets, cryogenics, control and data acquisition...
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