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To: mishedlo who wrote (78634)	6/13/2002 10:15:50 PM
From: Jdaasoc	Respond to of 99280

Do you see Bush administration championing anything from tech sector besides computer security or they totally concentrating on mid term elections and have put blinders on to dealing with anything else. I think Network Assoicates may have the best bet of getting some of the government internet security business. I was suprised how much they have put EPA Christine Whitman out to dry recently. I don't see her or anyother moderates lasting to NOV. Bush called her agencies report on global warming "work done by bureaucrats" and Cheney ramroded the canceling of retrofitting with clean burning upgrades and they allowed more polution from dirty midwest power plants. This will reverse all the clean air progress of the last 30 years which was the #1 most widely proclaimed public policies Whitman had as governor of NJ. I can remember as a child watching from several miles away in NJ the top of the WTC towers enveloped in a thick purple haze of smog. The smog is gone and so are the towers but the last thing I want to see is that choking polution return. from AP JUNE 13, 18:53 ET Bush Pushes High-Speed Internet Access By D. IAN HOPPER AP Technology Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush told technology executives Thursday that the country should move more quickly toward deploying high-speed Internet access. Company leaders said he was short on specifics. Bush spoke after discussions between administration officials and executives such as AOL Time Warner chairman Steve Case and Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina. His comments on high-speed Internet access, or broadband, were met with cheers from an industry battered by the post-Sept. 11 economic downturn and clamoring to deliver the attractive video and music that broadband makes possible. ``This country must be aggressive on the expansion of broadband,'' Bush said. ``It is time for us to move with an agenda.'' Several technology trade groups have floated broadband strategy proposals, though executives at the conference said the administration had few concrete proposals. ``What I didn't hear was what exactly the program or mandate that's different'' from the previous administration, said John Chen, chairman of the database company Sybase. But John Thompson of the security company Symantec, who participated in the discussions, said Bush tried ``to highlight areas of leadership for him and his administration.'' A coalition of consumer groups complained that they were not invited to the conference. The consumer groups have been dismayed by recent Federal Communications Commission decisions on broadband access that they say would lead to higher prices and more power for large cable and telephone companies. Bush highlighted his income tax reduction effort, as well as his administration's push to relax limits on technology exports. He also asked the executives to lobby Congress to grant him the authority to make trade deals that Congress could not alter. Homeland security was one of the main subjects of the conference. Government officials spoke about efforts to protect the food supply against bioterror attacks and the new plan for a Homeland Security Department. Also discussed was how to protect computers from hacker attacks and bring more attention to the problem. One idea was to put the issue on the same level as the Year 2000 mobilization effort, which brought a government-wide catalog of vulnerable systems, strong disclosure requirements in the public and private sectors and hard deadlines. ``The fact is there were no solid proposals on homeland security and what the next step is,'' said George Samanuk, head of the computer security company Network Associates.