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Democrats defeat Online Freedom of Speech Act in House [fs]
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 23:16:11 -0800
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: --- http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5929587.html Democrats defeat election-law aid for bloggers November 2, 2005, 7:55 PM PSTDemocrats 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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