House Passes Targeted Stop Gap Spending Bills

After a meeting at the White House that failed to produce a resolution on the government shutdown, the House of Representatives passed a series of bills that would provide funding to parts of the government.

The debate proved heated as Rep. George Miller, D-California, repeatedly said that Republicans were waging “jihad” on Americans by not passing a “clean” continuing resolution to fund the government.

The House then passed bills funding the National Park Service, 252-173 and a second bill to fund the National Institutes of Health, 254-171. House members will consider a bill Thursday to fund the Department of Veterans Affairs and National Guard.

Democrats in the Senate have vowed to vote down any bill sent from the House that would partially fund parts of the government.

Government Seeks To Access Web Users’ Private Data

The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that would allow the government to access your private data on the “suspicion” of a “cyber threat.”

The bill passed the house on Thursday 248-168.  While the bill, the “Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA)” passed the house by a wide margin the US Senate is expected to take up an entirely different internet security bill.  President Obama has threatened to veto CISPA. Continue reading