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Money slated for Glendale Memorial

Glendale News Press | 07-20-2010

Local heart patients got a boost when Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) on Monday announced he had secured enough money in an appropriations bill for a $350,000 upgrade for the chest pain center at Glendale Memorial Hospital.

Hospital officials said they will use the money to improve equipment and cardiac care at the center, which was built to quickly test and treat patients with problems ranging from chest pain to serious heart attacks.

“Glendale Memorial treats a substantial number of people with cardiac illness and had a need to improve its technology,” Schiff said. “It seemed an important investment.”

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Rep. Schiff: New Steps to Expand Communication and Connectivity

American Chronicle | 06-09-2010

“Online social networks like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube present an unprecedented opportunity for me to directly engage with my constituents,” Rep. Schiff said. “For this reason, we are going beyond our weekly e-newsletter and Facebook efforts, and kicking off Twitter and other social media. I will also be participating in the Member Online All-Star Competition and hope we can engage an even greater number of my constituents online.”

Winners of the Online All-Stars will be selected based on the total new Facebook fans, Twitter followers and YouTube subscribers acquired during the two-week contest. To help Rep. Schiff in the competition, add him as a friend on Facebook: www.facebook.com/CongressmanSchiff; follow him on Twitter:http://Twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff; and subscribe to his YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/AdamSchiff.

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Rep. Schiff Testifies at House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security

American Chronicle | 06-08-2010

“We know with a statistical certainty that delaying the testing of rape kits will mean that we miss the opportunity to take people off the street who have committed rape or murder and in the interim, these people will go on to murder and rape others. That is simply unacceptable,” Rep. Schiff said. “DNA is the most powerful law-enforcement innovation since the fingerprint, but only if we use it to its fullest potential. It is time we take the lessons learned in the years since the passage of the Debbie Smith Act and turn them into new policies to speed the processing of rape kits.”

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U.S., China relations improving: U.S. Congressman

Xinhua| 06-05-2010

Schiff sponsored the Nuclear Forensics and Attribution Act to strengthen the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s efforts in developing techniques for “fingerprinting” nuclear material and encouraged U.S. President Barack Obama to negotiate international agreements to govern international nuclear forensics activities.

Schiff is also leading the effort to combat intellectual property theft. He is a co-chair of the Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus, a bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers dedicated to working with America’s international trading partners to secure the enactment of strong copyright laws as well as their vigilant enforcement.

Schiff said Hollywood movies are popular in China and the movie industry is one of the few sectors enjoying a trade surplus.

He said it was important for the U.S. to strengthen its efforts to fight piracy, admitting that in this field, the United States and China had many concerns.

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Op-Ed by Rep. Adam Schiff: Pakistani Taliban must be dealt with

The Hill | 05-20-2010

By Rep. Adam Schiff

“The attempted attack in New York City’s Times Square on May 1st illuminated a cluster of challenges confronting counterterrorism officials and policymakers. The quick arrest of Faisal Shahzad, a 30-year-old Pakistani-American, belied the fact that the threat to America has markedly increased as a result of the Pakistani Taliban’s decision to train operatives for attacks in the U.S., the increased sophistication of terrorist recruiting, the global influence of radical clerics who preach jihad online and the especially disquieting signs of attempts to radicalize America’s Muslim community.”

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China, Canada among top five on US piracy watch list

AFP | 05-19-2010
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US legislators condemned Canada, China, Mexico, Russia and Spain on Wednesday for failing to crack down on piracy of movies, music, videogames and other copyrighted works.

Representative Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, said pressure needs to be brought to bear on US banks and credit companies whose services are being used to pay for pirated copies of music, for example, on “rogue websites.”

“We not only have to put pressure on these countries that are tolerating piracy or encouraging piracy but we also have to put some pressure on companies here at home that are helping facilitate piracy,” Schiff said. “We need to dry up that revenue stream as part of the attack on those sites.”

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Congressman Schiff´s Web Site Wins Gold Mouse Award

American Chronicle | 04-22-2010

The Web site of Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) was recognized by the Congressional Management Foundation (CMF) for having one of the best Web sites in Congress.

“One of the key reasons for the awards is to highlight best practices so offices can improve their sites by learning from those already excelling in online communications,” said Beverly Bell, CMF´s Executive Director. “Web sites like Schiff´s serve as a prime example that we hope other Congressional offices will follow.”

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NSA stops collecting some data to resolve issue with court

Washington Post | 04-19-2010

A special federal court that oversees domestic surveillance has raised concerns about the National Security Agency’s collection of certain types of electronic data, prompting the agency to suspend collecting it, U.S. officials said.

“It was much simpler when all you needed to do was figure out whether you needed a search warrant to search a particular location,” said Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), also a Judiciary Committee member. “But in an age of voice over IP, when everyone has stored electronic communications on answering machines, the laws that were quite simple rapidly become outdated. The challenge at agencies like NSA is to not only stay ahead of the technological curve, but to stay ahead of the legal curve as well.”

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Steve Scauzillo: Preventing a preventable catastrophe such as nuclear war

Pasadena Star News | 04-16-2010

Typically in government, the things that are really important rarely get addressed.

Yet sometimes, government does something that makes you sit up and say, it’s about time. That kind of aha! moment occurred this week for Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Pasadena, when President Obama called 47 nations together to address the problem of loose nuclear materials, which, if not accounted for, secured and eventually destroyed, could fall into the hands of terrorists.

In 2001, Schiff got elected to Congress and immediately began talking about what he called “loose nukes” to anyone who would listen. One of my first interviews with Schiff was about that very topic. I spoke to him by telephone from Washington about the same topic Thursday afternoon:

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Obama announces a plan to set foot on an asteroid, Mars

Pasadena Star News | 04-15-2010

President Barack Obama plan to send American astronauts to an asteroid and Mars – but not the moon – could benefit scientific research at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, officials said Thursday.

“The President’s original plan for human space flight had some good ideas, but suffered from a lack of detail and an overarching goal,” said Rep. Adam Schiff D-CA, in a statement. “The new plan fills in many of the details and provides the vision and timetable for aggressive exploration that NASA and the country need. I look forward to working with the Administration to ensure that we remain the leader in human and robotic exploration.”

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