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Trumix.com listings available of Tech Policy Pod Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Tech Policy Pod The Homeland Security Department this week proposed long-overdue guidelines to fulfill a federal mandate for standard driver's licenses and identification cards. The proposed rules, now in the 60-day comment phase, are required under the so-called REAL ID Act. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Policy Pod A week after the Bush administration released its budget proposal for fiscal 2008, the plan is taking hits on a handful of technology-related fronts. The complaints cover everything from cyber security and educational technology to intellectual property and programs seen as essential to U.S. global competitiveness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Policy Pod Most of America knows early February as the time for Groundhog Day. But folks inside the Beltway celebrate something else this time of year: Budget Day, when presidents traditionally release their budget priorities. This week, the Bush administration unveiled a fiscal 2008 budget request that is chock-full of technology-related initiatives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Policy Pod For months, Democratic lawmakers have hinted that Republican FC Chairman Kevin Martin would face a grilling from them, and this week they delivered. At a Senate Commerce Committee hearing that featured all five FCC members as witnesses, Martin was hit with a barrage of questions about the AT&T-BellSouth merger, Internet freedom and media diversity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Policy Pod Technology Daily this week began a two-week series to examine the tech-related agendas of key congressional committees and subcommittees, the leaders behind those agendas and the newest lawmakers on the panels. We started by covering the panels with the broadest tech and telecom jurisdictions, including the House Energy and Commerce Committee now headed by Michigan Democrat John Dingell. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Policy Pod The hottest topics on the technology front this week were electronic surveillance and data mining aimed at catching terrorists. The Bush administration announced a change in course for one controversial program even as concerns about another one arose. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Policy Pod Techies swarmed to Las Vegas this week for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, but they took a few breaks from their celebration of gizmos and gadgetry to talk about technology policy. Tech Daily Senior Writer Andrew Noyes was there to capture all of the news for our PM Edition and our blog, Tech Daily Dose. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Policy Pod Lawmakers returned to Washington from the holiday break this week to start the 110th Congress -- the gift that keeps on giving for Democrats who now control both the House and Senate, and the lump of coal in the stocking for Republicans who lost power. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Policy Pod Not many political creatures are stirring in Washington these days because the 109th Congress has adjourned. But lawmakers didn't leave town before clearing various technology-related bills in a marathon session that ran into last weekend. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Policy Pod Lawmakers will be closing the books on the 109th Congress this week, so advocates of a trio of technology-related bills are making last-minute pitches for action on their pet issues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Policy Pod The New Year will bring new chairmen in Congress from the newly dominant Democratic Party, but technology industry lobbyists are not too concerned about all of the change. They are taking comfort in the bipartisan dialogue of key lawmakers who have proved friendly to the industry in the past. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Policy Pod Leaders from more than a dozen high-tech groups this week urged Congress to renew the research and development tax credit before adjourning their post-election session. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Policy Pod Democrats have regained political power for the first time in 12 years, and their success stretches from Capitol Hill to statehouses and state legislatures across the country. Some of the Republicans who fell from voters' grace were favored by the technology industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Policy Pod Americans go to the polls for a pivotal mid-term election Tuesday, and one of the great unknowns is how well the numerous new machines for recording their votes will work. Election officials are busy making last-minute preparations so that candidates, not e-voting systems, make the news. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Policy Pod The 2006 campaign is being "Google-bombed." Both liberal and conservative bloggers this week started trying to manipulate the Google search engine so that negative articles about the candidates they oppose appear near the top. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Policy Pod You know that favorite tune stored as a ring tone on your cell phone? Well, the recording industry stands to make bundles of money for those ring tones under a new Copyright Office ruling. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Policy Pod The push by AT&T and BellSouth to merge their telecommunications businesses in a $78 billion deal moved one step closer to reality this week. The Justice Department approved the plan without imposing any conditions on it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Policy Pod Much of political America is preoccupied with sex these days -- the cyber sex that former Rep. Mark Foley of Florida reportedly had or wanted to have with congressioinal pages -- and the discussion has prompted some talk of new laws aimed at the online "grooming" of children for illegal sexual activities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Policy Pod This looks to be the last legislative workweek in Congress before the election, and that means some measures are falling by the wayside. A bill aimed at streamlining the licensing of online music was among the latter. It was abruptly pulled from committee action this week. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Policy Pod Republicans in Congress have dubbed this month "Security September," and the Homeland Security Department endorsed that theme this week by naming a cyber-security chief after a 14-month wait. The technology industry lauded both the announcement and the designee. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Policy Pod Security September. That's what Republicans in Congress are calling this month in Washington, and the agenda certainly lived up to that billing this week. The week started with events to mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and then came the legislative work. The House and Senate each passed homeland security bills. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Policy Pod Congress is back in town from its August recess, and telecommunications reform is one of the biggest technology issues on its agenda. The topic was the focus of some heavy lobbying during the break. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Policy Pod A federal court in Michigan ruled that the National Security Agency cannot keep monitoring phone calls and e-mails of Americans without first getting warrants. An official with the American Civil Liberties Union called the decision "another nail in the coffin" of the government's legal strategy in the war on terror. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Policy Pod With lawmakers at home campaigning, August presented a perfect opportunity for a special series on the intersection between politics and technology. Today's podcast covers this year's tech candidates, tech issues and tech tools, among other things. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Policy Pod The Senate had one key technology issue on its agenda this week before leaving town for the August congressional recess: renewal of the research and development tax credit. Unfortunately for techies who wanted the credit extended, the proposal stalled despite some creative legislative maneuvering. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website