Congress off to Slow Start with Tech

CONGRESS OFF TO SLOW START WITH TECH
[SOURCE: C-Net|News.com, AUTHOR: Anne Broache]
When newly empowered Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives launch into their much-touted 100-hours agenda on Tuesday, don't expect to see much in the way of issues important to the high-tech industry. Elevating the minimum wage, urging stem-cell research, and ushering in lower prescription drug prices are on the initial calendar. But hot-button topics such as rewriting patent law, encouraging broadband availability, protecting Net neutrality, and upping the skilled worker visas so beloved by high-tech companies aren't foremost priorities yet. The issues' early absence shouldn't be taken as a sign of things to come, Democratic aides said.
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