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Winners And Losers In The Recess Rush
This looks to be the last legislative workweek in Congress before the election, and that means lawmakers are scrambling to finish work on must-pass bills and measures that might win them favor with voters. Other matters are falling by the wayside.
A bill aimed at streamlining the licensing of online music was among the latter. Sponsors of the measure abruptly pulled it from consideration by the House Judiciary Committee this week, acknowledging that it had little or no prospect of gaining approval in the current Congress.
Texas Republican Lamar Smith, the chief bill sponsor, said he believed he had the support to push it through the House but saw no reason to do so in view of the fact that the measure has become bogged down in the Senate.
Also in the news this week: the spying scandal at Hewlett-Packard, the renewed push for a deal on legislation aimed at preventing such spying, and the outcry against a planned merger between AT&T and BellSouth. Listen to the podcast for details on those stories and more.
Posted by Technology Daily on September 29, 2006 11:09 AM | Permalink
