Tauzin-Dingell Passes House 18
TheMatt writes: "The House has just passed
the Tauzin-Dingell telecom deregulation bill. This was previously discussed here yesterday." All of the reports seem to agree that there are enough Senators opposed to it that it's not likely to pass this session.
Of course the senate won't pass it... (Score:1)
... they're too with the SSSCA to bother with Tauzin-Dingell.
Minor Error in article... (Score:3, Insightful)
The article says:
But, according to this [house.gov] page, the vote was 421-7. By the way, the seven who are firmly in the Bell's pockets are:
Re:Minor Error in article... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Minor Error in article... (Score:2)
Only seven corrupt politicians in the House of Representatives. Yeah. I'm sure that's what that is.
Re:Minor Error in article... (Score:1)
A possible ray of light... (Score:3, Informative)
But again, this has a strong battle in the Senate, and Hollings was very loud-spoken in stating that this bill won't get through the Senate in a form close to the House version, and he's the one right now with the most power on the Senate treatment of the bill.
Re:A possible ray of light... (Score:1)
My joke post (though the moderators apparently didn't see it as such...) has proven to be more accurate than I thought...
Telcom Bill is a good idea. (Score:1)
I don't see much likelyhood of a opensource fiberoptic laying company coming anytime soon.. "Honey, I'm going out for a few hours, the local ACM is going to lay a few miles of cable today.". If we want big progress, we need to let big business do what it does best.. big projects.
How did your rep vote? (Score:2, Informative)
The battle ahead (Score:1)