From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 95 18:00:55 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: co-sponsors S.974
Message-ID: <199507140100.VAA00681@pipe4.nyc.pipeline.com>
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Responding to msg by perry@imsi.com (Perry E. Metzger) on Thu, 
13 Jul  4:51 PM

>I searched Thomas and couldn't find any evidence of 
>co-sponsors to the  Senate bill. Am I wrong here?


As you know, gnu@toad.com sent the EFF analysis which included:

   > From: ssteele@eff.org (Shari Steele)
   > ...
   > Fortunately, the bill does not have a very promising
   > future.  The bill has  no co-sponsors.  It was immediately
   > referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, where it
   > currently sits.  LEXIS's bill tracking report only  gives
   > it a 10% chance of passing out of the committee. ...


In contrast, the following is from law list Cyberia-L today:


   > At  8:17 AM 7/13/95 -0400, James R. Coleman wrote:

   >> Anyone know the committee status of this bill.  Does it
   >> have co-sponsors?  House sponsors?  Are hearings
   >> scheduled?  Or is Grassly not serious but tryint to get
   >> some press in Des Moines?

   > The bill was co-sponsored by Sens. Kyl (R-AZ) and Leahy
   > (D-VT). It has the enthousiastic support of the
   > administration. In a DOJ press release  following its
   > introduction, AG Reno is quoted as saying "computer crime
   > is fast becoming everyone's problem. I'm encouraged that
   > this bill is off to a  bipartisan start, and I hope
   > Congress will move quickly to enact it." 
   >
   > If there's a companion bill in the House, I'm not aware of
   > it.
   >
   > John Noble


Anyone got better info on yes/no sponsors or seen the DOJ press
release?