[86581] in Cypherpunks
Re: unSAFE won't pass?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Smith)
Sun Sep 14 23:45:56 1997
From: "John Smith" <jsmith58@hotmail.com>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 20:06:41 PDT
Reply-To: "John Smith" <jsmith58@hotmail.com>
Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>:
>By late September, the Commerce committee will vote on SAFE. By
>mid-October, the committee chairs should have worked out a compromise
>package. This goes to the Rules committee, chaired by Solomon. Until
last
>week he vowed to block SAFE. Now he'd like, I'm told, to get the FBI's
>version to the floor immediately. There are, however, only so many
slots
>on the suspension calendar.
The thing I still don't understand is why anyone thinks the house
will support the new bill. There were hundreds of co-sponsors for
SAFE in its original form. The modified version is exactly the
opposite of the original SAFE. So it seems like a majority of house
members should oppose the bill.
"John
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