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Cha'Ron Sweeney, who scored a game-high 31 points, gets a lift from Ce'Dra Evans after Rogers captured the first City League girls basketball championship in school history. THE BLADE/ANDY MORRISON Enlarge | Photo Reprints A mere 5-foot-2, Rogers junior
SOPA author Lamar Smith is sponsoring a new bill named the “Protecting Chidlren From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011″ (H.R. 1981). The bill is not brand new, mind you, but with so many other oppressive attempts by the government to invade privacy and
Attorney General Eric Holder, left, talks with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, during a break in the committee's hearing on Operation Fast and Furious. View Photo »
The idea and the goal of this gift today is to make sure that Quarri Technologies will be able to hire the best and brightest UTSA cyber security graduates in the future. And I hope that, of course, will make the country even more successful as well
If you look at the things I oppose, then Im going directly to hell... It seems the politicians believe Im for terrorism, child porn, and rampant piracy. Just because I want to watch The Big Bang Theory when I want to watch it. Okay, that last is a big en
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), who heads the congressional Media Fairness Caucus, Friday used his minute of opening speech before the rule debate on extending the payroll tax cut-and approving spectrum auction legislation-to call on the news media to be "ho
Interesting that he renamed the Lawful Access Act to The Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act. Lamar Smith, of SOPA infamy, has a "track everyone online" bill also called the Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011. In both
US President Barack Obama (3rd R) signs the America Invents Act, sponsored by Chairman Patrick Leahy (Top) and Chairman Lamar Smith at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, on September 16, 2011. The act... View Photo »
The future of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has grown murky as House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has all but declared the bill dead, but the measure’s sponsor, Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), has vowed to push ahead.
If Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) is elected president, she promises to install two security fences wherever the land of the free meets the land of the willing-to-work-for-less-than-minimum-wage. And just in case you doubt Bachmann’s commitment to redun
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, in his Roll Call op-ed ("President Is Ignoring Immigration Laws," Feb. 6), argues that a policy of deporting serious criminals instead of parents, military families and students attending college is bad for
Lamar Seeligson Smith (born November 19, 1947) is a politician from the state of Texas, currently representing the state's 21st congressional district (map) in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican. Full Article
Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, right, accompanied by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash. smiles during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 26, 2011.
View Photo »US President Barack Obama (3rd R) signs the America Invents Act, sponsored by Chairman Patrick Leahy (Top) and Chairman Lamar Smith at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, on September 16, 2011. The act reforms the patent application system...
View Photo »House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, right, accompanied by, from left, Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, and Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich. , gestures during his weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 26, 2011.
View Photo »House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, right, accompanied by Senate Judiciary Committee Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. , speaks during a news conference on Capitol in Washington, Monday, April 4, 2011, to discuss their efforts to thwart the harm done to the economy by...
View Photo »Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, right, accompanied by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash. smiles during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 26, 2011.
View Photo »The idea and the goal of this gift today is to make sure that Quarri Technologies will be able to hire the best and brightest UTSA cyber security graduates in the future. And I hope that, of course, will make the country even more successful as well
The future of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) has grown murky as House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has all but declared the bill dead, but the measure’s sponsor, Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), has vowed to push ahead.
The bill's broad bipartisan support shows Congress' commitment to combating rogue sites and ensuring that profits go to American innovators, not criminals who steal our products and damage our economy
The stated intent of the legislation — the brainchild of Republican House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith and Senate Democratic Judiciary Committee Patrick Leahy — is to protect intellectual property and curb the rampant digital piracy for which the Internet has become the principle medium ... ...
After consultation with industry groups across the country, I feel we should remove Domain Name System blocking from the Stop Online Piracy Act so that the [House Judiciary] Committee can further examine the issues surrounding this provision ... We will continue to look for ways to ensure that foreign w...
The Business Software Alliance today commended House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) for introducing the 'Stop Online Piracy Act' (H.R. 3261) to curb the growing rash of software piracy and other forms of intellectual property theft that are being perpetrated by illicit websites
Lawful companies and websites like Google, Twitter, Yahoo and Facebook have nothing to worry about under this bill
BSA stands ready to work with (House Judiciary Committee) chairman Lamar Smith and his colleagues on the Judiciary Committee to resolve these issues
We will continue to look for ways
It is not censorship to enforce the law against foreign thieves
I welcome today’s announcement that the White House will support legislation to combat online piracy that protects free speech, the internet and America’s intellectual property ... That’s precisely what the Stop Online Piracy Act does.
I welcome today’s announcement that the White House will support legislation to combat online piracy that protects free speech, the internet and America’s intellectual property ... That’s precisely what the Stop Online Piracy Act does.
Congress cannot stand by and do nothing while some of America’s most profitable and productive industries are under attack
After consultation with industry groups across the country
Doing nothing is not good enough
This legislation makes sense
We have lots of support for the bill, we think any concerns are unfounded and we're moving forward.
One recent survey found that nearly one-quarter of global Internet traffic infringes on copyrights
For all those teams to get to Columbus they had to put in a lot of hard work ... Everyone can't make [it] down to Columbus, so you have to give those teams a lot of credit. We want to try to win it. That's our goal, just like it was for those teams.
Our goal is to win our first City championship, and then to make a state run ... The key is to use our speed, athleticism, and good size. We need to stay healthy, and continue to play our style of game, which is to attack.
We can't sneak up on anybody anymore ... These girls have a year's experience under their belt and we have some transfers in. So, we've got some senior leadership now. The keys will be just keeping the girls working hard every night, and not getting caught up in the pressure of it. Also, staying consist...
The public has a right to know both the full extent of Justice Kagan’s involvement with this legislation while she was solicitor general, as well as her previously stated views and opinions about the legislation while she was serving as solicitor general
A federal judge must first agree that the website in question is dedicated to illegal and infringing activity
