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Wed Nov 6 13:04:11 2013
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 10:04:11 -0800
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In President Obama's push to crack down on the abundance of firearms
in America, proposed gun-control legislation may be having the opposite
effect.Updated FBI statistics show that background checks in the first three
months of the year far outpace the number of checks in early
2012. The stats show that from January through March, gun owners went
through 7 million background checks -- compared with just 4.8 million in
the first three months of last year.The spike in checks, coupled with
mounting anecdotal claims that ammunition is hard to come by, comes amid
concern by gun owners that new proposals at the state and federal
level could limit access to firearms.Though supporters of the legislation
say that is not the case, the assurances haven't stopped what statistics
suggest is a run on weapons. The purchases have picked up ever
since Obama's election in 2008. Since 2009, there have been 71 million
background checks logged in the federal system. The annual number has risen
every year.The recorded checks only apply to sales from licensed dealers.The
most recent spike further adds to the underlying challenge facing lawmakers
-- how do you regulate weapons when there are already 300 million
of them, and rising, in circulation?While some lawmakers have proposed clawing
back currently owned assault-style weapons, most proposed assault-weapons
bans only apply to future purchases. And at the federal level, the
chance of such a ban passing has
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., left, and
the committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. C.A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger, D-Md.,
participate in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington in late
2012. House lawmakers finalized legislation Wednesday that would give the
federal government a broader role helping banks, manufacturers and other
businesses protect themselves against cyberattacks.AP Photo/J. Scott ApplewhiteWASHINGTON
A House panel voted overwhelmingly Wednesday in favor of a new
data-sharing program that would give the federal government a broader role
in helping banks, manufacturers and other businesses protect themselves
against cyberattacks.The bill, approved 18-2 by the House Intelligence Committee,
would enable companies to disclose technical threat data to the government
and competitors in real-time, lifting antitrust restrictions and giving
legal immunity to companies if hacked, so long as they act in
good faith. In turn, companies could get access to government information
on cyberthreats that is often classified.It's a defiant move by pro-business
lawmakers who say concerns by privacy advocates and civil liberties groups
are overblown. But even while the panel's approval paves the way for
an easy floor vote next week, the legislation has yet to be
embraced outside the Republican-controlled House. Last year, a similar measure
never gained traction and eventually prompted a White House veto thre
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<p style="font-size:xx-small;">ch everywhere but Caracas, the capital. Worsening power
outages, crumbling infrastructure and other unfulfilled promises witnessed
this week in a trip through the country's industrial heartland could be
an important factor in Sunday's election to replace socialist President
Hugo Chavez, who died last month after a long battle with cancer.His
political heir, Nicolas Maduro, is favored to win, largely on the strength
of Chavez's generous anti-poverty programs, which Chavez emphasized over
public works with one big exception: housing.But polls show that support
may be eroding and the outages are a testament to the neglect
many Venezuelans consider inexcusable in this major oil-producing state.
Violent crime, double-digit inflation, official corruption and persistent
food shortages are other factors.Some of the rolling, intermittent blackouts
are still scheduled. But most are no longer announced. They generally last
three to four hours a day on average, said Miguel Lara, who
ran the power grid until Chavez forced him out in 2004 for
being "a political risk."Jose Aguilar, a U.S.-based consultant with extensive
and more recent experience in Venezuela's electrical industry, says it is
suffering "a downward spiral of deterioration." Insufficient transmission
lines are running so hot that 20,000 distribution transformers burned out
last year, he said. "They run them cherry red."Electrical substations are
in a precarious state, Aguilar and Lara s
March 7, 2013: Interior secretary nominee Sally Jewell testifies on Capitol
Hill.APSally Jewell, CEO of outdoor retailer Recreational Equipment Inc.,
won easy Senate confirmation Wednesday to be the nation's next interior
secretary.The Senate approved her nomination, 87-11, with all the no votes
coming from Republicans. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,
was among those who opposed Jewell.At Interior, Jewell will oversee more
than 500 million acres of national parks and other public lands, plus
more than 1 billion acres offshore. The lands are used for energy
development, mining, recreation and other purposes.One of the first challenges
Jewell will face is a proposed rule requiring companies that drill for
oil and natural gas on federal lands to publicly disclose chemicals used
in hydraulic fracturing operations.The administration proposed a draft "fracking"
rule last year, but twice has delayed a final rule amid complaints
by the oil and gas industry that the original proposal was too
burdensome. A new draft is expected this spring.Jewell also is expected
to continue to push development of renewable energy such as wind and
solar power, both of which are priorities of the interior secretary she
succeeds, Ken Salazar.President Barack Obama nominated Jewell last month
to replace Salazar, who announced his departure in January.Obama said in
a statement Tuesday that Jewell's extensive business experience -- including
her work as
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