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To: Rande Is who wrote (25817)	5/12/2000 5:17:00 PM
From: JD	Respond to of 57584

Sounds promising, good luck. I had that Bloomberg running for about 10 minutes....then it hit the first AMTD commercial and "CLICK".... I do much better with no TV at all...

To: Rande Is who wrote (25817)	5/12/2000 5:24:00 PM
From: EightyEight	Respond to of 57584

The other news of interest to CICI: GOP Nears E-SIGN Accord, Democrats Wait May 12, 2000 Print Story Robert MacMillan, Newsbytes.com E-Mail Story Washington - House and Senate Republican staffers apparently are close to reaching an accord on what they would like to see in a House-Senate compromise digital signatures bill, and a GOP accord could come as early as today. Democrats, meanwhile, continue to wait for the Republican results, while they work on a compromise of their own. If the staffs reach a breakthrough on what issues should come up when the conference committee meets, electronic signatures legislation will take one last, decisive step closer to going to the White House for President Clinton's signature. A source close to the negotiations told Newsbytes that House and Senate Republican staffers have resolved most of their differences on what should be in the combined legislation, and that only the issue of how to insure a technologically neutral bill remains. Staffers for Sen. Spencer Abraham, R-Mich., the GOP leader on the digital signatures issue, were not immediately available for comment. A Senate Democratic staffer said that a minority take on the legislation from Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is in the works, but nothing is yet final. The House and Senate each have brought their passed versions of electronic signatures legislation - H.R. 1714, the Electronic Signatures in Global and National E-Commerce (E-SIGN) Act, and S. 761, the Millennium Digital Commerce Act - to the table to fashion a single bill that eventually would make its way to the White House. A Senate staffer earlier this week said that House supporters of the E-SIGN bill, which contains large provisions that allow certain important consumer information to be made available on the Internet and via e-mail - that is, not in paper copies - are beginning to petition Senate Republicans to ease their grip on the bill, which they feel has slowed down the ability for the conference committee to meet. Leahy and Senate Banking Committee Ranking Member Paul Sarbanes, D-Md., have complained that the legislation could erode at states' rights to make their own laws on digital signatures, and could also harm consumer rights to receive their information in writing if they do not have access to e-mail or the Internet. The conference committee first was stalled after Republicans tried to keep Leahy and Sarbanes off the panel, citing a lack of jurisdiction. While House sources also said that the bill that is reported out of conference would not carry provisions of Senate bankruptcy reform legislation, published reports today indicate that the bankruptcy issue still may come up. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., in early April told reporters that he and Senate Minority Leader Thomas Daschle, D-SD, arrived at an agreement to send some of the less prickly aspects of a large bankruptcy reform bill into the final melding of House and Senate versions of digital signature legislation. But a House staffer said that this possibility now is "dead." Reported by Newsbytes.com, newsbytes.com . Copyright¸ 2000 Post-Newsweek Business information, Inc. All Rights Reserved Network Events TECH Calendar Press Releases Washington Wire Industry Reports and White Papers Washtech Research Regional Company Profiles IT Almanac Personal Tech