[87049] in Cypherpunks
Re: Crypto-victory in Commerce; Oxley talks about nuking Congress
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Thu Sep 25 01:24:45 1997
In-Reply-To: <v03007801b04f6fd3f0ab@[204.254.21.43]>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 20:26:31 -0700
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>, fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu,
cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
Reply-To: Steve Schear <azur@netcom.com>
>Declan McCullagh wrote:
>The future, however, is uncertain. The bill now goes to the
>House Rules committee, whose chairman said today in a
>strongly-worded letter that he'd only allow a bill to go to
>the floor if it included Oxley's amendment. Look for a hell
>of a lot of behind-the-scenes lobbying on this now...
Might this not now be used to our advantage. If partisans from our side
can bait the stubborn committee members into quashing the bill, we've won
an even greater victory...no new crypto bill.
--Steve
