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Re: House National Security committee guts SAFE, worse than no
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Sat Sep 13 12:52:08 1997
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 21:55:42 -0700
To: "Brock N. Meeks" <brock@well.com>
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9709122143.A11840-0100000@well.com>
At 09:12 PM 9/12/97 -0700, Brock N. Meeks wrote:
>Don't count on the language being yanked in Judiciary. The real "only
>hope" is actually an incredibly low tech and unsexy thing called "time."
>
>The 105th Congress wants to split early, possibly in three weeks! Yes,
>three weeks (hard working lot, eh?) There is no way this bill gets
>through the Rules committee with multiple versons floating around and
>then gets brought to the floor for a vote... won't happen.
Are you sure about this? Traditionally, anti-civil liberties legislations
is passed by well over 90% of the vote only days before Congress adjourns.
--Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
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