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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (2640)	10/2/1998 12:36:00 AM
From: Ken Salaets	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

Washington Update -- House Whips Through Y2K Bill I mean, damn! I got an email message from Koskinen telling me that, contrary to what we had been told regarding the House moving tomorrow (Friday), the bill could move today. This was around 4:30 EDT. I took care of some more business, then went into my colleague's office around 5 and flipped on C-SPAN. There was all kinds of commotion on the floor of the People's House. Then I heard the Member in the chair say something about Y2K. I leaned out of the office to holler to the big boss (i.e., much higher pay grade than me ggg), "Looks like they're bringing it up." When I ducked back into the TV room -- no more than 5 seconds elapsed -- the Acting Chair was bringing down the gavel and Rep. Goodlatte (R-VA, one of the good guys) was asking for unanimous consent that Reps have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks (i.e., insert speeches as if they had actually been there doing something). I waited a few minutes to try to confirm what I thought had just happened. Not another word. I then retreated to my desk and called the Senate Republican cloak room (ed. note: cloaks?!). The gal on the phone assured me that the bill had not been voted on, and was indeed on the calendar for Friday. Suspicious, I then called the Dem's cloak room and made the same inquiry, and a guy named Mike assured me that no action had been taken. So, back to the 'puter. I wrote John back and asked, in essence, "Waa happened?" He wrote back almost immediately (guy must sit at his keyboard like the rest of us) and confirmed that the bill had indeed passed. Unanimous consent. No recorded vote. Blink and you missed it! And who said Congress isn't doing anything! (Uh, Big Boss, remember two months ago when you were laughing at my optimism that we'd get something enacted this year? Can you say, fat bonus? ggg). Oh yeah, John also implied that he and his staff were doing some celebratory drinkin'. Best get it out of their systems now, 'cause next year there will be a battle royale with the trial lawyers. We's just warmin' up... gggg. Ken