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January 8 - GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS: GAO Cites FAA Security Breaches

January 15 - : Mixed Reaction To Security Plan

January 15 - BUDGET: Administration Ends Ban On Export of Encryption Devices

January 15 - COMMERCE: Debate Over Internet Regulation Rekindled by AOL Mega-Merger

January 15 - TAXES: New Technology May Enable States To Reap 'Remote' Sales Taxes

January 15 - TAXES: States' Internet Tax Strategy: Buy Time From Congress

January 22 - : Governing the Internet

January 22 - : House Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas J. Bliley Jr., R-Va.

January 22 - CYBER-TURF WARS: Banking Panels Want Their Stamp on E-Signatures Bill

February 5 - FOREIGN AFFAIRS: More Money, Better Oversight Urged to Thwart Terrorism

February 5 - HEALTH: Senators Question Adequacy Of FDA, NIH Protections For Genetic Therapy Patients

February 5 - NOTEWORTHY: Deal Reached On Vieques

February 5 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Satellite, Cable Providers Scrap Over Federal-Backed Loans To Expand Rural TV Choices

February 12 - BUDGET: President Would Add $2.9 Billion For Science, Technology Research

February 12 - INTERNET POLICY: Seeking a Meeting of the Minds on E-Taxes

February 19 - : EPA Protecting Its Web Site

February 19 - DEFENSE: Security Boast At Energy 'Nonsense'

February 19 - SCIENCE: Senate Argues Promise and Peril Of Human Stem Cell Research

February 26 - : Senators Introduce Anti-Hacking Bill

February 26 - : Subcommittee Treads Lightly In Quizzing Corps of Engineers

February 26 - COMMERCE: Hearings on Online Trading Put Industry, SEC on Notice To Curb Alleged Abuses

February 26 - TECHNOLOGY: Conference Set On Satellite Privatization

February 26 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Senators Unveil Satellite TV Subsidy Bill

March 4 - : Satellite Privatization Measure Is Passed by Senate

March 4 - COMMERCE: Governors Tell Senate Ban on Internet Taxes Is the Wrong Way to Go

March 4 - INDUSTRY REGULATION: AOL-Time Warner Pledge To Open Up Cable Systems Leaves Senators With Doubts

March 4 - LABOR EMPLOYMENT: High-Tech Visa Debate Shifts to House

March 4 - TECHNOLOGY: Lawmakers, Industry Debate How to Tackle 'Cybercrime' Without Jeopardizing Privacy

March 11 - : House Clears Bill to Privatize Communications Satellite Market

March 11 - TECHNOLOGY: Rural Television Access Bill With Loan Enhancements Wins Senate Panel's Approval

March 11 - TRADE: 'Dual Use' Export Rewrite Quickly Stalls in Senate As Committees Squabble

March 18 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Audits Give Panel Doubts About USDA's Ability to Manage Rural TV Subsidy Program

March 25 - E-Mail Bill Would Penalize Spammers

March 25 - Industry Wants '99 Law Changed

March 25 - Internet Privacy Issue Beginning to Click

March 25 - Rural TV Loan Guarantees Emerge From House Markup Resembling Senate Bill

March 25 - The Internet, Tax-Free

April 1 - Burton Seeks Special Counsel For E-Mail Case

April 1 - Gephardt Not to Be Outdone By GOP in Pitch to Tech Industry

April 1 - Hill to Scrutinize Mars Failures

April 1 - New Corporate Incentives Bills Compete With Regulatory Relief As a Way to Spur Internet Access

April 1 - Rural TV Improvement Bills Advance

April 8 - Campaign Aid Gives Gates Windows Seat on Congress

April 8 - E-Signature Bill Readied For Conferees

April 8 - GOP Deplores Microsoft Ruling, Urges Gates to Support Party

April 8 - McCain Seeks Longer Hiatus For Web Taxes

April 8 - Origin of the Sherman Act

April 15 - House Passes Compromise Rural TV Bill

April 15 - House Seeks to Limit FCC Plans For Low-Power Radio Stations

April 15 - Panel Troubled by NASA Management

April 15 - To Assist Computer Exports, House Bill Seeks to Bypass Broader 'Dual Use' Measure

April 22 - Free-Speech Concerns Complicate Hill Debate On Attacking Junk E-Mail

May 6 - Panel Moves Moratorium on Internet Taxes

May 20 - GOP Moves Closer to Its Vision Of a Laissez-Faire Tech Economy In Votes on Phone, Internet Levies

May 27 - Bliley Makes Deal With Democrats On E-Signature Bill, but Gramm And Industry Say He Went Too Far

May 27 - High Court Says Some Curbs On Adult Cable TV Channels Violate the First Amendment

June 3 - Gates Hoping for Hill Help

June 10 - Antitrust Ruling on Microsoft Appears Unlikely to Prompt Legislative Changes This Year

June 10 - Fear of Excess Regulation Delays Cyber-Security Bill

June 10 - Progress on 'E-Signatures,' Internet Tax Ban Slows Despite Industry Pressure

June 17 - Deputy Commerce Secretary On Short List to Succeed Daley

June 17 - FCC Says Rural Internet Access Bill Could Hinder Digital TV

June 17 - House Panel Approves Penalties For Violating Junk E-Mail Bans

June 17 - Senate Clears E-Signature Bill As Gramm Gives In On Consumer Protections

June 17 - Senate Panel Approves Bill That Would Fully Repeal Phone Excise Tax This Year

July 1 - Bill to Restrict FCC's Oversight Of Mergers Advances in House

July 22 - Clinton's Cyber-Proposal Won't Have Legs

July 22 - High-Speed Internet Access Bill Appears Stalled Until Next Year By Regulatory and Business Concerns

July 22 - McCain Trying to Protect Internet Turf

August 12 - Pressure Grows for Legislation To Protect Social Security Numbers

September 16 - Computer Security Given Low Marks

September 16 - House Passes $42.4 Billion NASA Bill Including Curb on Space Station's Cost; Agency's First Reauthorization Since '92

September 23 - Bill Would End 'Reciprocal Compensation'

September 23 - No Ethics Violations Found in Brown Probe

September 23 - Technology Research Bill Passed by Senate

September 30 - Bill Would Stop Telemarketers From Blocking Caller ID

October 7 - Internet Privacy Protection Bill Appears Dead for the Year

October 7 - Substitute Electronic Crime Bill Adopted by Senate Judiciary

October 7 - Tax Proposals Could Hitch Ride On Year-End Spending Bill

October 7 - The Likeliest Survivors

October 14 - Information Technology's Anxious Side

October 14 - NASA Reauthorization Cleared by Senate

October 21 - House Clears Bill to Extend Shared Risk for Space Launches

October 28 - McCain Seeks Deal With White House On Blocking Children's Access To Internet Pornography

October 28 - Rural TV Improvement Measure, Low-Power FM Radio Restrictions Hitch Ride on CJS Spending Bill

December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Electronic Signatures

December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Internet Gambling

December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Internet Privacy

December 16 - 2000 Legislative Summary: Rural TV