Vice President of the United States under George W. Bush
Require reliability standards for electricity delivery
We need a sound, national energy policy. Growing businesses depend on steady, affordable, and reliable supplies of energy. We learned an important lesson during the blackout that hit the Northeast this summer:
this nation needs an energy policy that will make sure our electrical grid is up to date, and that reliability standards for those who deliver electricity are mandatory, not voluntary.
Source: Remarks at the National Minority Enterprise Conference
, Sep 30, 2003
Opposed selling supercomputers to USSR
[As secretary of defense in the 1908s], Cheney opposed selling supercomputers to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Source: Encarta Encyclopedia On-line
, Feb 29, 2000
Loosen Bell & telecomm rules; fund SSC
Cheney co-sponsored the following bills in Congress:
H.R.3800 (1986):A bill to permit the Bell operating companies to provide information services and to manufacture telecommuncations equipment.
H.CON.RES.339 (1988):A concurrent resolution
calling for the full participation of American industry in the provision of telecommunications equipment and services.
H.R.3228 (1988):A bill to authorize appropriations for the Superconducting Super Collider Program.
Source: Thomas Register of Congressional Votes
, Jan 1, 1988
Proposed information age warfare in 1980s
[We suggest that DoD become] highly sensitive to technology in force-structuring concepts and better prepared for multi-scenario future force requirements [via the following]:
Develop and link networks of geopolitical, strategic and technological
planners within the JCS and individual service structures to make the strategic product more enlightened, cohesive and more sensitive to technological opportunity.
Incorporate more technical and scientific courses in the professional development
education of officers and enlisted personnel.
Begin a large-scale effort to increase expertise in Soviet affairs, Latin-American and African affairs.
Aggressively continue the development and evolution of the Army’s high-
technology light division and light infantry divisions to provide a highly lethal, mobile, deployable and self-sufficient force that can bring overwhelming military power to bear in remote regions of the world.
Source: Military Review article by Cheney & Major Thomas Harvey
, Oct 9, 1986
Loosen broadcast license rules; prohibit TV encoding
Cheney co-sponsored the following bills in Congress:
H.R.2250 (1984):A moratorium on changes to the FCC rules regarding network television syndication and prime time access.
H.R.2382 (1984): A bill for new procedures for broadcast licenses, to
provide certain deregulation of broadcast services, and for other purposes.
H.R.3989 (1986):A bill to prohibit the encoding of satellite-transmitted television programming until decoding devices are fully available at reasonable prices.
Source: Thomas Register of Congressional Votes
, Jan 1, 1986
