Boucher Skips High-Tech Talk
Rep. Rick Boucher, one of the Computer and Communications Industry Association's best friends on Capitol Hill, skipped his scheduled keynote at the trade group's annual Washington Caucus on Tuesday. Sources told Tech Daily Dose that the Virginia Democrat confirmed his attendance Monday night but CCIA President Ed Black announced right before his scheduled timeslot that Boucher had called in sick.
The prominent member of the House Judiciary Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property Subcommittee is the sponsor of a bill introduced last February that would amend the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by changing some provisions that ban the use of technologies aimed at defeating IP protections. CCIA was one of the proposal's biggest industry backers in the 110th Congress and in prior sessions.
Boucher has been rumored to be a front-runner for the top spot at the IP subcommittee in the 111th Congress, when its current chairman Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., is expected to take the helm at the House Foreign Affairs Committee. CCIA and its high-profile Silicon Valley member companies watch the panel closely and routinely weigh in on its actions.
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