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by Anonymous User on Tue Jun 29, 2004 at 02:36:25 PM PDT

Question:

Does anyone know of any US Senator or Representative that is truly technically knowledgeable?  I'm not talking about someone able to type in and answer their own e-mail, or one that may have some saavy advisor, but one that has a fairly vertical understanding of operating and network systems, e-mail, and the Internet.

Point being that Congress measures the success of legislation by how few people it pisses off rather than how much of a problem it actually solves. Look at CanSpam. Isn't there anyone out there that can take the lead on this and translate tech jargon into elected-official-covering-his-or-her-own-butt-ese to make these people understand the far-reaching consequences of their own sloppy and poorly conceived actions?

But hey, I'm being realistic here.  I don't expect a reply.  

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Re: Congressional enablers[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#3)
by Ed Foster on Tue Jun 29, 2004 at 03:01:00 PM PDT

Reps. Rick Boucher (D-VA) and John Doolittle (R-CA) deserve mention in this respect. They are the co-sponsors of H.R. 107, the Digital Consumers Rights Act, which provides some much needed reforms of the DMCA. This bill falls under the purview of the same committee that is pushing the SpyAct, but unfortunately does not seem to be on such a fast track.

Ed Foster



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