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FINS SPECIAL REPORT FILIBUSTER ON NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS ACT ENDED
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 1994 07:30:49 -0500
==================================================================== FINS SPECIAL REPORT MARCH 15, 1994 ==================================================================== FILIBUSTER ON NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS ACT ENDED Prior Proposed Restrictions on Purposes of NREN Removed Washington, DC By unanimous consent order issued at 2:59 p.m., Mar 15, the filibuster to defeat S.4, the National Competitiveness Act of 1994, led by Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Sen. John C. Danforth, was terminated. The terms of the consent order did not affect any matter pertaining to title VI of the Committee modification introduced by Sen. Hollings Mar 7, 1993. As the bill now stands, title VI, Information Technology Applications, removes restrictions on the purposes of the National Research and Education Network (Network Program) previously contained in the bill (S.4) reported by the full Committee last summer. Those restrictions prohibited network capabilities in the experimental test bed networks that were available from commercial networks operated by the private sector (Sec. 611(a)(2)(B). They also eliminated restrictions intended to take effect within 18-months on the use of test bed networks to provide commercial network services that could be provided by using commercially available network services (Sec. 611(d)). The substitute amendment now includes language amending sec. 102 of the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 to require that program funds "shall develop, provide access to, or use communications networks through the acquisition of commercially available network services or through contracting for customized services when such acquisition cannot satisfy agency requirements." (Sec. 102(g)). Sen. Hollings explained at the time of introducing the substitute amendment that the bill "includes language on one key provision--the section ensuring that Federal support for computer networks does not create unfair competition to commercial phone companies, while still providing that Federal agencies remain free to operate their own internal mission networks." A vote on the bill was scheduled for Wednesday morning, Mar 16, 1994. =========================================================================== BECOME A MEMBER OF FINS--COLLABORATE IN PROTECTING THE SPIRIT OF CYBERSPACE --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Membership rate: $30.00 a year. United States and International members receive 24 issues of Fins News Columns a year; plus networking, or print reproduction rights in primary markets; plus Fins Information Age Library. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Federal Information News Syndicate, Vigdor Schreibman, Editor & Publisher, 18 - 9th Street NE #206, Washington, DC 20002-6042. Copyright 1994 FINS. Internet: fins () access digex net. Browse Fins Information Age Lib located at the University of Maryland by: "All the Gopher Servers in the World"; or if you have a Gopher client : gopher to inform.umd.edu and go to the directory Educational_Resources/Computers_and_Society/Fins_Information_Age; or if you have ftp : ftp to inform.umd.edu cd to inforM/and the same directory. =============================================================================
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