{"id":30750,"date":"2021-01-15T17:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T01:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30750"},"modified":"2021-01-15T17:00:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T01:00:38","slug":"dem-calls-for-new-tech-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30750","title":{"rendered":"DEM CALLS FOR NEW TECH COMMITTEE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress needs a new committee that focuses exclusively on information technology, Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qfghyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmnhsnmg_otjtwwjzjdtltfrwfzrl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qfghyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmnhsnmg_otjtwwjzjdtltfrwfzrl.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1610844590451000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHVTJ3ydrKCirLbXR7i7q28C2X8Tg\">Bill Foster<\/a>\u00a0(D-Ill.) said Thursday at an event hosted by The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Foster, a member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, told The Hill&#8217;s Steve Clemons that the growing IT sector means Congress needs more resources so that it can be nimble in its responses to issues facing the industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInformation technology has now just passed financial services as a fraction of the economy. And yet, there is no congressional standing committee on information technology,\u201d Foster said at The Hill\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/olkmscfgqttdpcptdkwqqdmmqfdntftvvlqgcrntfmjftl_otjtwwjzjdtltfrwfzrl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/olkmscfgqttdpcptdkwqqdmmqfdntftvvlqgcrntfmjftl_otjtwwjzjdtltfrwfzrl.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1610844590451000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFiF3L4mvAFOq5D-ihjqSjJ_2DNQw\">Advancing Innovation: Technology Leading the Way<\/a>\u201d event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress needs a new committee that&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30751,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30750\/revisions\/30751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}