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Re: Kerrey bill introduced in Senate

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Weinstein)
Tue Jun 17 22:50:14 1997

Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 17:34:43 -0700
From: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
To: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>

Greg Broiles wrote:
> 
> Sen. Kerrey's evil "Secure Public Networks Act" was introduced in the
> Senate today, cosponsored by Sen. McCain.

The bill is S.909, and it's described as "A bill to encourage and
facilitate the creation of secure public networks for communication,
commerce, education, medicine, and government."

It was also cosponsored by Sen. Hollings(SC).  It's been referred to
the Commerce committee.  Here's a list of all the committee members.

 Republicans            Democrats
 -----------            ---------
 McCain (AZ)            Hollings (SC)
 Stevens (AK)           Inouye (HI)
 Burns (MT)             Ford (KY)
 Gorton (WA)            Rockefeller (WV)
 Lott (MS)              Kerry (MA)
 Hutchison (TX)         Breaux (LA)
 Snowe (ME)             Bryan (NV)
 Ashcroft (MO)          Dorgan (ND)
 Frist (TN)             Wyden (OR)
 Abraham (MI)
 Brownback (KS)

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