Rick Boucher

2011 Privacy Ins and Outs

Christopher Wolf | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cookies, Do Not Track, Online Advertising, Data, The Social Network, Rick Boucher, Commerce Department, Full-Body Scanners, Deep-Packet-Inspection, Ftc, Privacy, Fipps, Technology News
Christopher Wolf

To kickoff the New Year, the Future of Privacy Forum has released their first annual list of privacy ins and outs for 2011.

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Boucher Defeat a Loss for Tech Policy World

Gigi Sohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Copyright, 2010 Elections, Rick Boucher, Elections 2010, Technology, Network Neutrality, Net Neutrality, Technology News
Gigi Sohn

Whatever the final results of this election night, nothing will be more shocking or sad for Public Knowledge and me personally then the defeat of Rep....

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Smart Internet Policy That's Good for Main Street

Julius H. Hollis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Telecommunications, Net Neutrality, Digital Divide, Open Internet, Job Growth, Henry Waxman, Fcc, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rick Boucher, Technology News
Julius H. Hollis

Americans need jobs and investments in broadband technology can create them. This goal of investing deeply in broadband technology remains central to America's economic vitality today.

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Sam Stein

Shadowy Pro-Business Group's 'Misleading' Ad Pulled From Virginia Race

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Americans for Job Security, Ajs Ad Boucher, Rick Boucher, Ajs Ad Campaign, Boucher Ad, Americans for Job Security Ad, Ad Campaign, Virginia Ad Campaign, Politics News

The shadowy pro-business group, Americans for Job Security, got tough front-page treatment in the New York Times on Friday for funding a host of conse...

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Time for the Pundits to Take a Deep Breath -- Why Democrats Will Not Be Routed In November

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, Mid-Term Elections, Chad Causey, Cedric Richmond, Joe Garcia, Rncc, Mike Acuri, Democratic Party, Dscc, Charlie Melancon, Barack Obama, Organize for America, John Adler, Dccc, Rnc, Larry Kissell, Rick Boucher, Ravi Sangisetty, Kurt Schrader, Tom Perriello, Ofa, Travis Childers, Dnc, Scott Harper, Steve Kagen, Jason Altmire, NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll, Republican Party, Kristi Noem, Dan Seals, Bobby Bright, Heath Schuler, Rscc, Politics News
Robert Creamer

In 1994 Democrats were caught flat-footed by the GOP onslaught -- completely unprepared to mount a defense. This year there is a danger that the opposite will be true -- that fear and defeatism turn into self-fulfilling prophesies.

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Jason Linkins

Virginia GOP's Boucher/Perriello Attack Ad Backfires

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Rick Boucher, Assault Weapons, Campaign Ads, Virginia-Congressional-Races, Tom Perriello, Gun Control, Felipe Calderon, Campaign Adwatch, Virginia GOP, Eat the Press, Politics News

The Virginia GOP got all red in the face when Mexican President Felipe Calderon came to give a speech to Congress and recommended a ban on assault wea...

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Congress Weighs Landmark Change In Web Ad Privacy

AP | JOELLE TESSLER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Web Advertising, Rick Boucher, Web Advertising Privacy, Media News

WASHINGTON — The Web sites we visit, the online links we click, the search queries we conduct, the products we put in virtual shopping carts, th...

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9 Democrats Environmentalists Have To Worry About

Grist | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mike Ross, Earl Pomeroy, Rick Boucher, John Tanner, Baron Hill, Climate Bill, Charlie Melancon, Green Politics, Jason Altmire, Artur Davis, Gene Taylor, Green News

Let's call them the Carbon Nine: Jason Altmire (Pennsylvania), Rick Boucher (Virginia), Artur Davis (Alabama), Baron Hill (Indiana), Charlie Melancon ...

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Major Compromise on Clean Energy and Green Jobs Bill

Josh Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Jobs, President Obama, Renewable Electricity Standard, Politics, Rick Boucher, Green News, Clean Energy, Copenhagen, Breaking Politics News, Congress, Green, Henry Waxman, Global Warming, Energy, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Climate Change, Green News
Josh Nelson

Roll Call is reporting that Representatives Waxman and Boucher have reached an agreement on several critical provisions of the American Clean Energy and Security Act.

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Support John Conyers' Truth Commission

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Eavesdropping, Detention, Tammy Baldwin, Truth Commission, Cheney, Surveillance, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, William Delahunt, Jerrold Nadler, Bush, Dick Cheney, Conyers, Intelligence, Kidnapping, Rick Boucher, Hank Johnson, Janice Schakowsky, Report, Enhanced Interrogation, War Powers, John Conyers, Judiciary Committee, Steve Cohen, Valerie Plame Wilson, House, Interrogation, Warrantless Wiretapping, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, Imperial Presidency, Rendition, Prisoner, Sheila Jackson Lee, Luis Gutierrez, Bobby Scott, Blue Ribbon Commission, Bush Administration, Chris Weigant, War Powers Commission, Co-Sponsor, Wiretapping, Torture, Extraordinary Rendition, hr104, Representative, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Are you frustrated by all the "we need to look forward, not backward" language from Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders? Well, now you can do something about it.

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Markey Takes Chairmanship of Key Energy & Environment Subcommittee -- House Geared for Action

David Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, House of Representatives, Ed Markey, Democratic Congress, Congress, Rick Boucher, Nancy Pelosi, Environment, Climate Change, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Green News
David Roberts

This is a big deal, even if you don't particularly care about inside Congressional baseball. The Energy and Environment Subcommittee has something the Select Committee does not: subpoena power and legislative jurisdiction.

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US Congress: Bloggers Are Journalists Too

Read/Write Web | Josh Catone | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mike Pence, Free Flow of Information Act, FFIA, Rick Boucher, Media News

Ars Technica reported late last night that the Free Flow of Information Act, which would grant protection of sources and documents at a federal level ...

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