Topic: Jane Harman

WASHINGTON, June 26 (UPI) -- The U.S. House Homeland Security Committee unanimously voted for two bills Thursday that would reduce excessive security classifications.

Five months after passing a new alternative fuel mandate, U.S. policymakers are questioning the legislation's wisdom in the face of skyrocketing food prices.

WASHINGTON, May 1 (UPI) -- The clock is running for the U.S. Congress to approve an overhaul of the nation's intelligence-gathering law, congressional insiders say.

WASHINGTON, March 3 (UPI) -- The Einstein program -- the most significant element yet unveiled of the classified multibillion-dollar cybersecurity initiative President Bush signed last month -- will still leave the U.S. government's IT security lagging the private sector, say lawmakers and industry experts.

Lawmakers in the United States and elsewhere should not to try to censor Islamic extremists' use of the Internet, says a new report from a global think tank.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- A senior U.S. lawmaker said she urged CIA officials in 2003 not to destroy videotapes of harsh interrogations.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Reps. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., and Jane Harman, D-Calif., vowed to continue the investigation of the CIA's alleged destruction of waterboarding tapes.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Two leading U.S. House members, a Democrat and a Republican, insist Congress will probe the CIA's destruction of tapes showing interrogation of terror suspects.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. Democratic lawmakers, expressing shock and anger, called for an investigation into the CIA's destruction of videotapes that documented interrogations.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- To a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail, so it is perhaps not surprising that U.S. lawmakers should seek to legislate victory in the ideological conflict with violent Islamic extremists.