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Digital Government
Internet Sales Tax Bill Quashed For Now
Speaker Boehner promised to revive the issue next year, which would enrage conservatives.
Emerging Tech
Analysis: Is Online Transparency Just a Feel-Good Sham?
Programs claim to let Americans participate more directly in government, with few tangible results, critics say.
Digital Government
Amendment to Block NSA Data-Collection Loses by Thin Margin in House
The House later passed its overall $512 billion defense spending bill for fiscal 2014.
Digital Government
Electromagnetic Pulse Caucus Battles Skeptics in Push to Protect the Planet
There are concerns in the Electromagnetic Pulse Caucus that electromagnetic energy from a massive geomagnetic storm may cause havoc.
Digital Government
House installs new electronic -- and time saving -- vote display board
How much would you pay for a vote display that offers better clarity and readability and saves time for clerks? A cool $6 million?
Digital Government
Google CEO joins speakers at Dem retreat
Schmidt will join Obama, Clinton at event.
Digital Government
Democrats set fast schedule for Defense, other spending bills
Top Senate Democrats hope to dispense with the fiscal 2010 defense authorization in just four days next week so they can clear the Senate floor for health care legislation and a vote on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. But with battles expected over several provisions of the defense bill, meeting that timeline might be a tall order.
