Two great votes in Congress:
- “the House passed Congressman Sanders legislation to amend Section 215 of the Patriot Act in order to keep the federal government from accessing Americans’ reading records without a traditional search warrant. ” (Link to story)
- The American Chemical Society has been putting pressure on Congress to cut funding to the NIH’s freely accessible PubChem database. The “House of Representatives’ Appropriations Committee approved the annual NIH budget with only the slightest admonishment that both parties work together.” (Link to story).