With Congress in the grips of the Great Sequester 3.0, it might seem an inopportune time for cycling advocates to storm Capitol Hill in the interest of pushing the two-wheel and pedestrian agenda. Considerably bigger fish and all. But ...
Following the dissolution of a proposed merger of cycling's most powerful advocacy groups, the League of American Bicyclists used the opening of its annual National Bike Summit to rebrand the organization and set a new course for the ...
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US Senator Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, and Representative Peter DeFazio, an Oregon Democrat, on Thursday again introduced bills to place a 0.03% tax on futures, swaps and other derivatives. Harkin and DeFazio have introduced bills ...
A large group of U.S. lawmakers has reintroduced legislation that would require online retailers to collect sales tax for state and local governments, essentially raising the cost of many online purchases by 10 percent or more. ...
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WASHINGTON -- Ten U.S. senators this week agreed to sponsor a bill that would allow the annual H-1B visa cap to rise to as high as 300,000, leaving opponents and some researchers concerned. Under the proposal, the cap would begin at ...
New legislation introduced by a bipartisan group of 10 U.S. senators would nearly double the number of H-1B visas that companies can get each year to hire foreign high-skill workers, including technology employees. The Immigration ...
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January 29, 2013 - Back in December, employees of Schneider Electric participated in Tremblant’s 24h Ski, helping the charitable sporting event surpass its 2012 fundraising objective of $2 million for Fondation Centre de ...
Google’s Transparency Reports, which are released every six months, are interesting not just for what they reveal about government requests for Internet user data, but also for what they fail to reveal. Transparency reports are ...
The group of U.S. Senators who are leading an effort to develop a bipartisan comprehensive immigration bill want it to include a so-called STEM visa. The bipartisan group of eight senators Monday released the framework for an immigration ...
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Google's Transparency Reports, released every six months, are interesting not just for what they reveal about government requests for Internet user data, but also for what they do not reveal. Transparency reports are basically a biannual ...
NHL hockey finally begins this weekend after a long lockout and GEObet.com, a tribally-owned online casino, sportsbook and poker room, is refunding all losing money line & puck line bets when a Canadian Hockey team loses in overtime. It's ...
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An effort by three U.S. senators to add an Internet sales tax amendment to a military spending bill has failed, at least for now. Last week, Senators Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, Mike Enzi, a Wyoming Republican, and Lamar Alexander, ...
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The U.S. Senate has voted against moving forward on a cybersecurity bill that supporters have called critical for national security. The Senate late Wednesday voted 51-47 to end debate and move toward a final vote on the Cybersecurity Act ...
The Obama administration "strongly supports" a new cybersecurity bill scheduled to be debated on the Senate floor soon, even though some of its provisions are watered down from earlier legislation, the White House Office of Management and ...
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Computerworld - A senior Democratic lawmaker is urging President Barack Obama to issue an executive order aimed at protecting the nation's critical infrastructure against cyber threats. In an open letter to the President on Tuesday, Sen. ...
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