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1995-07-21 - Re: Why no action alert, coalition opposing S. 974?

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From: lmccarth@cs.umass.edu (L. McCarthy)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
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UTC Datetime: 1995-07-21 22:05:11 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 21 Jul 95 15:05:11 PDT

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From: lmccarth@cs.umass.edu (L. McCarthy)
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 95 15:05:11 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Subject: Re: Why no action alert, coalition opposing S. 974?
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Paul Elliott writes:
> The best time to persuade these "experts"
> will be before they make any public statements about the bill in the
> subcommittee hearings and their positions are locked by pride not 
> wanting to publicly change their positions. Thus we should be contacting
> these people now, and we may have a chance to nip SB 974 in the bud.

Sen. Kyl (Arizona) became a co-sponsor of S.974 yesterday (7/20/95). He,
at least, appears to believe the bill is still heading somewhere.

(Ref: Congressional Record, pg. S10427)

-Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>

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