Senate Sources Say CTO Confirmation a Done Deal

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday May 17, 2009 @01:30AM from the casting-a-critical-eye dept.

theodp writes "On Tuesday, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation will examine the nomination of Aneesh Chopra as the first-ever federal Chief Technology Officer. Senate sources said they were not aware of any debate surrounding his nomination. You'd think the hack-for-$10-million-ransom of Virginia's Prescription Monitoring Program might be good for a question or two. Or the wisdom of appointing a CTO who's no technologist. It might also be worth bringing up Chopra's membership in TiE-DC, a group which promises 'exclusive peer networking events' with government officials and Federal contractors, including TiE-DC sponsor Microsoft. Are there any other issues that might make the Confirmation Hearing more than a rubber-stamping?"

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Re:ODF? by Jurily · 2009-05-17 01:34 · Score: -1, Offtopic

But indirectly US Government policy has an important global effect.
Like invading any country that wants to sell oil for something other than USD. Remember Saddam?
Your getting by Anonymous Coward · 2009-05-17 01:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Annoyed
Re:ODF? by OeLeWaPpErKe · 2009-05-17 02:47 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Government for the dollar, by the dollar.
The only change is doing it in public. But seriously, this government is going to send a $300.000 bill to every newborn American already, isn't it getting "a bit" ridiculous ?
At what point do you impeach a president ? When he spends $1 million of your money ? In other words, next month ?