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CaseyJones
04-04-2013, 08:51 AM
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/291743-house-intel-panel-plans-closed-door-mark-up-of-cybersecurity-bill


Members of the media and the public will not be able to watch the House Intelligence Committee's markup next week of a controversial cybersecurity bill, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).

Lawmakers will be allowed to discuss what happened in the meeting afterward, and the committee plans to release information about what amendments were offered and how lawmakers voted. But the public will not be allowed in the room, and the meeting will not be streamed online.

Susan Phalen, a spokeswoman for the committee, explained that the Intelligence Committee often restricts access to hearings and that it is possible that lawmakers will need to discuss classified information.

:rolleyes: more at link ^

ZENemy
04-04-2013, 08:52 AM
Taxation without representation

I do not consent

also: fuck you people.

Anti Federalist
04-04-2013, 12:24 PM
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: