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To: flatsville who wrote (5694)	5/12/1999 10:35:00 AM
From: J.L. Turner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

The silence is deafening. What happened to done 12-31-98 and all of 1999 for testing? Why has the FAA gone from 100% to 95% to 90% to ?% ? What happened to the government will be done 3-30-99? Where are all the corporations that are done? What % of local government is done? What happens if companies want to keep cash on hand in December for say payroll obligations and 5% of the population wants their money? What happens if a couple of scary y2k movies come out in late fall and some newly aware consumers go to Sam's only to find the toilet paper is gone? Could it be that by not warning everyone now or even before, the government has been derelict in it's duties?If people die will there be trials of government employees?Of people that knew but didn't warn or act on that knowledge? J.L.T.

To: flatsville who wrote (5694)	5/12/1999 10:50:00 AM
From: Technologyguy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

The writer completely misunderstands the difference between a "company" being complete and "projects" being complete. A company may have hundreds of different projects to test and remediate, but it won't be listed as complete until all of them are fixed and tested.

To: flatsville who wrote (5694)	5/12/1999 10:58:00 AM
From: Ken Salaets	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Washington Upchuck: The House bill, HR 775, is on the floor today, and should pass. The key question is how many Democrats vote for the bill......The White House has sent a letter to Congressional leadership expressing support for Y2K liability legislation with conditions (of course). So the Admin has now moved from "Hell no!" to "Uh Oh!" to "Let's go." In the end, they will no doubt claim that it was their idea (ggg).......Skirmish in the Senate continues behind closed doors. Industry, however, is putting on a huge push in support of the Dodd compromise. If the proponents can get cloture, S. 96, as amended, should draw in excess of 64 votes.....A lengthy Business Week article on the goings-on got nixed by the editors because "there was already too much tech in this issue".......WSJ is working on a "Where's Al?" article. Washington Post already ran theirs.......Back to arm twisting and vote buying....(ggg). Ken