The month of january is memorable wednesdays as you know. January 6 our nation witnessed one of the worst assaults on our democracy and our constitution in the history of the republic. The following wednesday the house impeached donald trump for inciting the insurrection that we saw. In just one week he was impeached. The wednesday after that t, joe biden and Kamala Harris were inaugurated as president and Vice President of the United States. It has been history making in so many respects. Yesterday we celebrate the one week since inauguration. In that one week, President Biden starting on day number one have driven a bold agenda for progress and justice issuing transformative executive action from the coronavirus, Racial Equity in so many ways and again addressing the climate crisis. Legislatively those executive orders we have been working on our committees that are diligently working on the Coronavirus Relief legislation as a basis for reconciliation. We will pass a reconciliation b
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Will talk about later to get to senator alexanders remarks at the 10 30 scheduled time. Thank you, mister president. It is such an honor to be here and to join my colleagues in paying tribute to senator alexander, there are many that want to speak and have a few words to say. All of us wish we could do this to a background of music with lamar playing the piano. That would be the proper setting but i am so pleased to stand and honor the three terms of service in this body and the way he touched the lives of individuals in this body and millions of tennesseans. We know that he has talked about it in his remarks, he has worked with educators. He has worked with innovators. He has worked with the healthcare community, and works with entertainers, many of whom called tennessee home. When i was serving in the house and representing tennessees seventh Congressional District so many times i would look over here and i would say what is lamar not working on today because he always had such a bro
Argument on legal access to online information and whether police and other enforcement officers can access information for personal purposes. Hear argument next in van buren versus united states. Mr. Fisher. Mr. Chief justice and may it please the court, the cfaa is an antihacking statute. To ensure comprehensive coverage, the statute prohibits exceeding authorized access. This ensures that the statute covers not just outside, but also inside hackers. In this case, however, the government seeks to transform the prong of the cfaa into a different prohibition. This prong covers obtaining any information via computer that the assessor is not entitled under the circumstances to obtain. It is no overstatement to say that this construction would brand most americans criminal on a daily basis. The scenarios are limitless, but a few examples will suffice. Imagine a secretary who says that her email or zoom account may be used only for businesses purposes or a person using a dating website whe
Mr. Chief justice, made please the court, it is an antihacking statute. Seatingprohibits the that succeeding access. It also covers not only outside but inside hackers. The government seeks to transform the prong into a different prohibition. It covers obtaining information by a computer that predecessor is not entitled under the circumstances to obtain. It is no overstatement to say this would brand most americans criminals on a daily basis. Scenarios are limitless. Imagine a secretary whose employee handbook says her emailers them account may be used only for business purposes, or a person using a dating site using false information to obtain information about a lossal mates, or student. If a government is right, any of these people commits a federal crime. Any employee that use the zoom account over the next giving to connect with relatives would be subject to federal prosecutors. The main argument is that a single two letter word in the definition under exceeds authorized access. T