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Coble seeks repeal of light bulb standardBy Mark Binker Staff Writer Wednesday, January 12, 2011 (Updated 8:06 am) GREENSBORO — U.S. Rep. Howard Coble is among those urging colleagues in Congress to turn off the lights on a controversial provision of the 2007 energy bill. The Greensboro Republican is a co-sponsor of a bill to repeal what some refer to — erroneously — as the incandescent bulb ban. Texas Reps. Joe Barton and Michael Burgess and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, all Republicans, were the original sponsors of the repeal measure. The legislation is a long way from passing, but it...

People waved American and “Don’t Tread on Me” flags during a Tea Party in Burlington on Saturday. Speakers quoted historic figures such as Patrick Henry, while calling for more individual freedom and less government spending and control. Alamance County Commissioner Tim Sutton, a Republican running for re-election this year, referred to the nearby, pre-Revolutionary War Battle of Alamance. He said Americans who fought for a new nation “would be proud of the attitude of the Tea Party movement.” Numbers went down significantly before it ended in the early afternoon, but a few hundred people were there at the peak of...

HIGH POINT, N.C. -- Sixth District Rep. Howard Coble fainted Thursday afternoon during an event at the Rotary Club on Country Club in High Point Coble was a featured speaker at the event and was greeting some of the nearly 100 people who had attended the event when he fell back and hit his head on a wall, Rotary President Mark Pierce said. "He was close to the wall and he clocked the wall when he went down," Pierce said. "He had a small laceration on the back of his head but it wasn't anything major." Chief of Staff Ed...

Jerrold Nadler's Two Faces on Terror By Jacob LaksinFrontPageMagazine.com | June 13, 2005Last Friday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Patriot Act had already been adjourned, but Jerrold Nadler, the Democratic blimpish congressman from New York and one of the leftmost members of the House Judiciary Committee, was too wound up to care: “We are not besmirching the honor of the United States, we are trying to uphold it,” bellowed the hefty Nadler. By this, Nadler meant to defend his attacks on the alleged abuses of the (in fact) privileged  prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Thanks to the efforts of the...

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The city's mayor on Monday dropped out of the Democratic race for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Ernest "Fritz" Hollings.

<p>The California Senate joined the state Assembly on Monday in urging Rep. Howard Coble, R-N.C., to resign as chairman of a congressional subcommittee because of his comments rationalizing the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.</p> <p>Coble, a North Carolina Republican who heads the House Judiciary subcommittee on homeland security, said during a Feb. 4 radio show that the internment was for the Japanese-Americans' own protection.</p>

<p>The Democratic National Committee has called on North Carolina congressman Howard Coble to resign his subcommittee chairmanship after remarks suggesting Japanese-Americans were interned during World War II for their own protection.</p> <p>The committee passed a resolution urging Coble, a Greensboro Republican, to step down from his post as chairman of the House Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security subcommittee, according to a statement released this week.</p>

<p>HIGH POINT, North Carolina (AP) -- An advocacy group criticized two North Carolina congressional members for comments they made about Arab-Americans, saying the remarks are part of "a very disturbing trend."</p> <p>Rep. Howard Coble, R-N.C., who heads the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, said on a radio call-in program Tuesday that he agreed with the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Coble made his remark when a caller suggested Arabs in the United States should be confined.</p>

Upcoming legislation in the US would give copyright holders free rein to use hacking methods to disrupt peer-to-peer networks, and would protect them if they accidentally damage the PCs of law-abiding users Congress is about to consider an entertainment industry proposal that would authorise copyright holders to disable PCs used for illicit file trading. A draft bill seen by CNET News.com marks the boldest political effort to date by record labels and movie studios to disrupt peer-to-peer networks that they view as an increasingly dire threat to their bottom line.Sponsored by Representatives Howard Berman, a California Democrat, and Howard Coble,...