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US Officials Considering Law to Address Domestic Terrorism The Department of Justice is reviewing the need for a new law to address domestic terrorism, a top official said Thursday. “That is something that we are thinking about as we are looking at all of our tools to see if we might have a threat environment, are we doing everything we can to counter the threat. One of the things we are looking at is what we need to do with authorities,” Brad Wiegmann, deputy assistant attorney general at ...

Domestic Terrorism Legislation: Senate Floor Action Likely SHARE Last week, I reported that Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) had introduced the S. 963, the Domestic Terrorism and Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2021–the companion bill to Rep. Brad Schneider’s (D-IL) H.R. 350. Both bills would create new “Domestic Terrorism” bureaucracies inside the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, and direct both departments to put special emphasis on a requirement for “...

Vermont Rep. Peter Welch proposes new regulatory agency to oversee Big Tech by Christopher Hutton Print this article In a move that comes outside the box, Rep. Peter Welch, a Vermont Democrat, recommended that Congress consider investing in a government agency for regulating social media companies. On March 25, the House Energy and Commerce Committee hosted a hearing on social media, extremism, and misinformation. The hearing featured Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg, Twitters ...

As we mark Sunshine Week 2021, it’s a fair question to ask: how broken is the nearly 60 year‐​old Freedom of Information Act? Very, in many ways. But for my purposes here, I’m going to focus on just one, recently highlighted in a January 2021 Government Accountability Office report titled In fiscal years 2010 through 2019, federal agencies claimed a total of 256 statutes as the basis for withholding requested information using Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemptions known as (...

Somerset County Democratic Screening Committee Endorses Powerful 16th District Ticket February 28, 2021, 8:34 pm | in Somerset County Democratic Screening Committee Endorses Powerful 16th District Ticket Zwicker, Freiman, and Jaffer will Complement Commissioners Robinson and Sooy’s County-Wide Bid Somerville – After interviewing more than a dozen state legislature hopefuls, the Somerset County Democratic Committee today unanimously endorsed a 16th District ticket of ...

By  The answers to some of the biggest challenges facing us this century lie waiting to be discovered in the laboratories and institutions of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. But we must remember, scientists do not operate in a vacuum in such endeavors. Increasingly, policy makers -- often working in the highest seats of government -- are playing an important role in the research discovery scenario, including deciding which projects to fund, and assuring that scientific discov...

Rep. Holt defeats IBM computer at Jeopardy! (0) Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) discusses how funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is fueling research and development during an event to launch the website ScienceWorksForUS.org on Capitol Hill in Washington on November 17, 2009. UPI/Madeline Marshall | License Photo WASHINGTON, March 2 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., has beaten IBMs Watson computer at Jeopardy! Holt, a physicist at Princeton Universitys Plasma Physi...

Scientists are calling on new US President Joe Biden to revive the cancer moonshot programme, aimed at ending the disease that kills tens of thousands of Americans each year, and which took the life of his son, Beau.

Flag said, fetus, transgender, suggests that there is ideology creeping in here. ideology is the enemy of evidence-based thinking. evidence-based thinking is the antidote for the kind of thinking that is not based on how things actually are. and it is hard enough to make evidence-based decisions without having is the very idea dispair acknowledged. >> dr. rush holt, thank you for joining us with your perspective on all of this. >> thank you. >> chris? more evidence that everything gets easier ...

Proposal for taking an ax to scientific research grants, the epa and the national institutes for health among other things. rush holt is a former common and now chief executive officer of the american association for the advancement of science. he said of the with white house plan, quote, the administrations propose the cuts would threaten our nations ability to advance cures for disease, maintain our technological leadership, ensure a more prosperous energy future and train the next generations...