[IP] Democrats HELP defeat Online Freedom of Speech Act in House [fs]
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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@xxxxxxxx>
Date: November 4, 2005 2:16:11 AM EST
To: politech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Politech] Democrats defeat Online Freedom of Speech Act in
House [fs]
Vote tally:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll559.xml
Text of bill:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.01606:
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http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5929587.html
Democrats defeat election-law aid for bloggers
November 2, 2005, 7:55 PM PST
Democrats on Wednesday managed to defeat a bill aimed at amending
U.S. election laws to immunize bloggers from hundreds of pages of
federal regulations.
In an acrimonious debate that broke largely along party lines, more
than three-quarters of congressional Democrats voted to oppose the
reform bill, which had enjoyed wide support from online activists and
Web commentators worried about having to comply with a tangled skein
of rules.
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