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The Gore Bill helped fund the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, where a team of programmers, including Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, created the Mosaic Web browser [7] [12] in 1993, the commercial Internet's technological springboard credited as beginning the Internet boom of the 1990s.
"We have increasingly heard from a large number of constituents and other stakeholders with vocal concerns about possible unintended consequences of the proposed legislation, including breaches in cybersecurity, damaging the integrity of the Internet, costly and burdensome litigation, and dilution of First Amendment rights." [56]
However, the bill would allow the President to enact "emergency measures" in the case of a large scale cyber attack. [2] The original bill granted the US President the authority to shut down part of the internet indefinitely, but in a later amendment the maximum time for which the President could control the network was reduced to 120 days.
Promoting American Energy Jobs Act of 2021: A bill to require the Secretary of Energy to establish a council to conduct a survey and analysis of the employment figures and demographics in the energy, energy efficiency, and motor vehicle sectors of the United States, and for other purposes. H.R. 3684: S. 3122: October 28, 2021
In a move that could significantly impact the retirement income of millions of Americans, a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is pushing to repeal a set of Social Security rules that reduce ...
S.2992 was introduced as a companion bill to H.R. 3816 by Klobuchar and Grassley on October 14, 2021. [2] On January 20, 2022, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary voted in favor of advancing the legislation in a 16–6 bipartisan vote. [6] The industry fought against the bill with "an aggressive lobbying blitz" according to the Washington ...
The Biden administration announced Monday that 20 leading internet service providers have agreed to offer basic low cost plans that will be free for millions of Americans after a refund.
For the bill to become law, both houses must agree to identical versions of the bill. After passage by both houses, a bill is enrolled and sent to the president for signature or veto. Bills from the 115th Congress that have successfully completed this process become public laws, listed as Acts of the 115th United States Congress.