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Business Week: (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama scored a victory in his bid to overhaul the health-care system when a Democratic lawmaker agreed to switch his vote and back the legislation, even as the bill faced delays in Congress.
Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich told reporters yesterday that a visit Obama made to his Cleveland-area district March 15 “underscored the urgency of this moment.” Read More
Revised cybersecurity bill introduced in Senate
NetworkWorld: A revised version of a cybersecurity bill first proposed last year was introduced again in the U.S. Senate today, notably without a controversial provision that would have given the President authority to disconnect networks from the Internet during a national emergency.
The bill, called the Cybersecurity Act, is sponsored by Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine). It seeks to improve national cybersecurity preparedness by fostering a closer collaboration between the government and the private sector companies, which own a vast portion of the country's critical infrastructure. Read More
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