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It was a procedure that produced a bumper crop of new voters: Just before Santa Clara County immigrants were sworn in as U.S. citizens, they got voter-registration cards and were shown how to fill them out.
Lofgren: No Network-Neutrality Legislation This Session
Democratic Rep. from California appears on C-SPAN's The Communicators . By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 7/18/2008 2:15:00 PM Rep.
Lawmakers discuss fate of 'widow penalty'
Washington, D.C. -- Anca Braniste left her native Romania in 2005 for love and marriage in the United States.
Ashcroft: 'Not hard' to reject interrogation memos
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft on Thursday disavowed the now-defunct legal reasoning used to justify harshly questioning terrorism suspects, but dug in his heels to defend White House officials who ...
Groups urge House leaders to improve E-Verify system
Nearly a dozen corporate and nonprofit organizations sent House leaders a letter Wednesday seeking congressional action to overhaul an electronic system that companies can use to verify the legal status of ...
Bill to fund back-up paper ballots fails
The House has defeated a measure that would have provided paper ballots to state and local governments as a back-up to their electronic voting systems.
New cellphone tax break proposed
A tax holiday may be in the future for wireless providers and the nation's 262 million cellphone users after all.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
State of the Net West 2008, August 6, SCU
I would like to invite you to attend State of the Net West 2008 , co-sponsored by the Advisory Committee to the Congressional Internet Caucus and the High Tech Law Institute.
Campus Notebook: Getting Greener
Reps. Zoe Lofgren and Zach Wamp introduced a bill on Thursday to authorize project demonstrations aimed at cutting energy consumption and cost in the House.
Zoe Lofgren - Postville Illegals Didn't Know They Broke The Law So They Should Stay
A United States Congressional Representative - has decided to take up the cause of illegal aliens who were busted in the Postville, Iowa "kosher" meat processing plant raid at AgriProcessors, Inc back in May, ...
The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog
Interpreter for some of the 400 immigrants arrested and sentenced in...
' In 23 years as a certified Spanish interpreter for federal courts, Erik Camayd-Freixas has spoken up in criminal trials many times, but the words he uttered were rarely his own.
Employment Verification Debate Pushed Off to Next Year
A key House leader on immigration policy intends to push into next year a contentious debate regarding employment verification.
What do Democrats Steve Cohen , John Kerry , Carolyn Maloney , Pete Stark , Charlie Wilson , Lloyd Doggett , David Price , Joe Sestak , Patrick Kennedy , Carolyn McCarthy , Heath Shuler , Howard Berman , Jim ...
Lawmakers seek House vote on reauthorization of electronic vetting system
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers hopes to buy Congress more time to tackle the charged debate over how best to verify the immigration status of workers in the United States.
Here's our debriefing of our DC Trip. We'll get more videos up over the next few weeks on FastCompany.tv - we filmed most of the interviews with our two-camera HD setup, and they take time to edit.
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Regulators to Save Us from Loud TV Ads and Product Placements
Couch potatoes of America, have no fear... Your friendly neighborhood super-regulators are about to swoop in and save you from the scourge of loud TV ads and "illegal" product placements! As we all learned in ...
Legislation Aims to Reduce Immigration Backlog
A new bill could encapture the unused immigration visa quotas from 1992 to 2007 to reduce the current backlog, reports the World Journal.
Will Congress Ban Loud TV Ads? Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act introduced in House.
If Rep. Anna Eshoo walks by, be sure to tip your hat and say "thank you!" She's the member of Congress who introduced the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act in the House of Representatives.
how musicians and performing artists could be compensated by radio
In an extremely familiar-looking gathering of legislators, performers, and radio broadcasters last Wednesday, Congress once again debated how musicians and performing artists could be compensated by radio ...
House passes new surveillance law
The House Friday easily approved a compromise bill setting new electronic surveillance rules that effectively shield telecommunications companies from lawsuits arising from the government's terrorism-era ...