Giuliani pushes military, intel tech
Posted: Friday, September 21, 2007 10:04 AM by Domenico Montanaro
From NBC's Andy Merten and NBC/NJ's Matt Berger
RESTON, Va. -- While Giuliani will be addressing a potentially skeptical crowd later today at the National Rifle Association convention in DC, he started the morning off with a breakfast speech here to a business technology group, an audience with whom he is certainly more in his element. He lauded the use of information technology in the military and intelligence community, saying, "Government has to figure out how to respond to that" to decrease its size and become more effective, but warned, "Democrats will put a lid on that growth."
Regarding today's expected veto of S-CHIP, the States' Children Health Insurance Program, by President
Bush, the former mayor said that he supports the president because some states would expand coverage to families making 400 percent above the poverty level. "We're going to take people off private insurance and put them on government insurance -- that's a disaster," he said.
Rudy received his loudest applause after saying that he hopes Congress will approve extending the moratorium on state and local taxation of Internet usage. He also was met with enthusiasm for his call for greater use of a "technology fence" to supplement cracking down on illegal immigration.
