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The U.S. House of Representatives approved Congress’ final version of the Can Spam Act of 2003 Monday, sending the landmark anti-spam legislation to the White House for President Bush’s promised signature. The bill establishes the first national standards for the sending of commercial e-mail and charges the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) with enforcing the Act. […]

Not a single United States senator voted against the anti-spam bill wending its way toward the White House. In the House of Representatives, 392 members clamored forth to support the nation’s first legislation to combat unwanted, unsolicited commercial e-mail. Only five said no, with two of those coming from technology-savvy Silicon Valley lawmakers. Reps. Zoe […]

The United States Senate expects to pass before Thanksgiving the House anti-spam bill, which would lead to the creation of the first national law aimed at slowing the glut of unsolicited commercial e-mail. The White House indicated over the weekend President Bush will sign the bill and its effective date will be Jan. 1, 2004. […]

WASHINGTON — With House and Senate leaders hoping to close this year’s congressional session on Friday (Wednesday at the latest), debates over other issues may not allow time to pass legislation on spam, or the Internet access tax moratorium, which expired Nov. 1. Negotiators have unsuccessfully met for weeks to resolve differences on the Internet […]

Although Congress gave the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) $1 billion more in funding than President Bush requested, the DHS has approximately 30 percent less than the administration wanted for technology spending, according to a new report by Input, a Reston, Va.-based government research firm. In early October, Bush signed into law the DHS Appropriations […]

The recovery in IT spending is underway, with a solid return to growth expected in 2004 and 2005, according to tech research firm Gartner . But the data also show that, while “strong single-digit growth over 2003 levels” is expected, growth rates will vary widely by technology sector. Also pacing the recovery, Gartner added, will […]

Opposition to permanently extending the ban on Internet access taxes began to stiffen Thursday night as the U.S. Senate opened debate on the Internet Tax Non Discrimination Act (S. 150). The House of Representatives has already passed legislation to make the access tax ban, which expired last Saturday, permanent. Debate will continue Friday morning and […]

The U.S. Senate has yet to schedule a vote on the Internet Tax Moratorium, which expires Saturday, although staff members predict there will be some action on the legislation by the end of the week. The U.S. House of Representatives on Sept. 17 passed a bill to make the current moratorium permanent. Similar legislation was […]

With Wednesday night’s historic Senate vote to approve the first ever federal anti-spam legislation, the focus now turns to the House of Representatives in Congressional efforts to have a bill on President Bush’s desk by the end of the year. Competing bills in the House containing many of the same provisions of the Burns-Wyden legislation […]

WASHINGTON — A buoyant Karen Evans, the nation’s newly appointed chief IT officer, told a sparsely attended press conference Wednesday that President Bush’s E-Gov initiatives would continue on despite draconian cuts in funding by Congress. As a part of the President’s Management Agenda, the E-Gov initiatives propose to make it easier for citizens and businesses […]