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Xant, here is a link to a summary of documents released by the US congressional committee on Commerce. I believe it is as close to a smoking gun as I am going to get tonight.

Others may find legislative memos of interest. For example, at a meeting of Committee of Counsels on March 31, 1983, there was a lengthy discussion of how to answer a question concerning the hypothetical repeal of the warning label. Counsels have used the warning as a defense in lawsuits to show that smokers had adequate warning. (See 2006239) Not wanting to admit they liked the defense, they decided they would answer the question that the industry has always opposed warning legislation "based upon the assumption shared by all that it wouldn't be repealed." (2000824)

Unfortunately, the links don't seem to be up tonight.

Xant, here is a link to a summary of documents released by the US congressional committee on Commerce. I believe it is as close to a smoking gun as I am going to get tonight.

Others may find legislative memos of interest. For example, at a meeting of Committee of Counsels on March 31, 1983, there was a lengthy discussion of how to answer a question concerning the hypothetical repeal of the warning label. Counsels have used the warning as a defense in lawsuits to show that smokers had adequate warning. (See 2006239) Not wanting to admit they liked the defense, they decided they would answer the question that the industry has always opposed warning legislation "based upon the assumption shared by all that it wouldn't be repealed." (2000824)

Unfortunately, the links don't seem to be up tonight.

Xant, here is a link to a summary of documents released by the US congressional committee on Commerce. I believe it is as close to a smoking gun as I am going to get tonight.

Others may find legislative memos of interest. For example, at a meeting of Committee of Counsels on March 31, 1983, there was a lengthy discussion of how to answer a question concerning the hypothetical repeal of the warning label. Counsels have used the warning as a defense in lawsuits to show that smokers had adequate warning. (See 2006239) Not wanting to admit they liked the defense, they decided they would answer the question that the industry has always opposed warning legislation "based upon the assumption shared by all that it wouldn't be repealed." (2000824)

Unfortunately, the links don't seem to be up tonight.

I'd never heard of the massacre myself -- obviously I don't pay enough attention to world news.

In any case, for those who want to know more about what happened, here are some links:
The Rohde to Srebrenica
Women of Srebrenica
US Congressional Hearing

You might also want to try Here, Here and...
OMG!
Here! They're planning something right now!

i have been following Tara Sue for about a week now. Ed Cone, an opinion writer for the North Carolina News and Record introduced her to the online world last Friday and has been mentioning her on an almost daily basis.

Dave Winer and others bloggers who have been writing for some time now about the need to find a challenger against Howard Coble quickly linked with support. Tara Sue has become an online ray of hope for many.

Her view on government-mandated maternity leave is certainly in conflict with libertarian values. However, she is certainly cuter than her competition. After all, politics is just a beauty contest, right?

For the love of God, please vote for her!

Vote for her because her ideas rock.

But also vote for her because she is running against Howard Coble, who is in the back pocket of the RIAA.

If you love the First Amendment and hate the DMCA, send Grubb to Congress!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't the proposed copyright bill allow XVID to DDoS Sigma Designs into utter submission? The Internet is, after all, a peer-to-peer file-trading network...

Between the DMCA and DRM and Congress helping corps trash Title 9 and the First Amendment I've had my fill. The only thing members of Congress (like this guy) seem to be doing is opening their wallets to lobbyists and campaign contributors and don't seem to give a rat's ass about the people they're supposed to be representing. I'm getting to the point where I fear the only way things will change is if I do it myself.

I turned 25 last month. I'm a resident of my state. I've still got three months until November. Does anybody know of any "Running for Congress for Dummies" websites or books out there? I think I've found most of the necesary paperwork but I don't think that's all there is to it...

Do not take this lightly. It can make citizens into subjects of an already exclusive government. It takes the abuse of power into part of your private domain in ways most people are not prepared to understand. Privacy, as a right, is defined by the U.S. Constitution's explicit freedom from "quartering of soldiers." Email this stuff to the people who you forward jokes to. You need them to know how you feel.

[from the ( Bill of Rights) 3rd. Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America]
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Consider Bruce's analysis:

Pd is inexorably tied up with Digital Rights Management. Your computer will have several partitions, each of which will be able to read and write its own data. There's nothing in Pd that prevents someone else (MPAA, Disney, Microsoft, your boss) from setting up a partition on your computer and putting stuff there that you can't get at. Microsoft has repeatedly said that they are not going to mandate DRM, or try to control DRM systems, but clearly Pd was designed with DRM in mind.

There seem to be good privacy controls, over and above what I would have expected...

When you think about a secure computer, the first question you should ask is: "Secure for whom?" Microsoft has said that Pd allows the computer-owner to prevent others from putting their own secure areas on the computer. But really, what is the likelihood of that really happening? The NSA will be able to buy Pd-enabled computers and secure them from all outside influence. I doubt that you or I could, and still enjoy the richness of the Internet. Microsoft really doesn't care about what you think; they care about what the RIAA and the MPAA think. Microsoft can't afford to have the media companies not make their content available on Microsoft platforms, and they will do what they can to accommodate them. There's often a large gulf between what you can get in theory -- which is what Microsoft is stressing in their Pd discussions -- and what you will be able to have in practice. This is where the primary danger lies.

If you consent to allowing companies to install DRM agents on your computer, you are giving up your legal domain of privacy to them. This is not bad if each program is quarantined off from any others, but what is to keep them from conspiring with each other via RPC across "partner" servers from vendor to vendor to offer you "tighter integration." The programs on your computer even with perfect process separation on your Pd equipped computer are no more trustworthy than the websites from each respective vendor. Worse: you still have to trust Microsoft to implement (instead of pretending to implement) those security functions.

You shouldn't have skimmed - he answers what you can do. To wit:

Don't email - write a letter and include a check made out to the representatives who support reigning in copyright law. There are so few right now that I can list them. They are:

Rick Boucher

Chris Cannon

That's it - all the U.S. Representatives who understand this issue. Support em cause they're all we've got right now. However, there is hope on the horizon....

Hank Perritt, the former dean of the Chicago School of Law, is running for congress. Help him win his seat and it'll help. If you live in Chicago, volunteer at Perritt's campaign headquarters. He needs all the free help he can get.

In your letter that includes a donation, make it clear why you support these particular men.

You can also send money to Eff.

You're not helpless, you can do something. The thing is to DO IT - not whing about it.

Do it now, not later.

Have no cash? Then at least get and display your free Free the Mouse bumper sticker.

You shouldn't have skimmed - he answers what you can do. To wit:

Don't email - write a letter and include a check made out to the representatives who support reigning in copyright law. There are so few right now that I can list them. They are:

Rick Boucher

Chris Cannon

That's it - all the U.S. Representatives who understand this issue. Support em cause they're all we've got right now. However, there is hope on the horizon....

Hank Perritt, the former dean of the Chicago School of Law, is running for congress. Help him win his seat and it'll help. If you live in Chicago, volunteer at Perritt's campaign headquarters. He needs all the free help he can get.

In your letter that includes a donation, make it clear why you support these particular men.

You can also send money to Eff.

You're not helpless, you can do something. The thing is to DO IT - not whing about it.

Do it now, not later.

Have no cash? Then at least get and display your free Free the Mouse bumper sticker.

If you care about this issue, one way or the other, I suggest contacting Rep. Royce (above) or Susan E. Rice, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs (sorry - bio only - no contact info on that page) and let them know. I know that most people today tend to be cynical, the truth is that politicians do indeed listen to the people they represent - they have relections to worry about, if nothing else. That's how democracy works.

P.S. If you're going to D.C., make a point of visiting your representative and senator, even if only for the photo op. Their offices regularly get access and tours for constituents that travel to D.C. Also, the officials really do enjoy meeting with the people they represent. They don't get into that line of work unless they love pressing the flesh and meeting new people.

If you care about this issue, one way or the other, I suggest contacting Rep. Royce (above) or Susan E. Rice, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs (sorry - bio only - no contact info on that page) and let them know. I know that most people today tend to be cynical, the truth is that politicians do indeed listen to the people they represent - they have relections to worry about, if nothing else. That's how democracy works.

P.S. If you're going to D.C., make a point of visiting your representative and senator, even if only for the photo op. Their offices regularly get access and tours for constituents that travel to D.C. Also, the officials really do enjoy meeting with the people they represent. They don't get into that line of work unless they love pressing the flesh and meeting new people.

And Congressmen you should support.

Read about 'em here. Previously covered on /.

Anyway, there is progress being made. We learn fast. And the Net makes it that much faster.

Does anyone know whether their appeal opens up the possibility for other groups to argue that the rates are too high??

Dunno about the RIAA appeal, but this would. I submitted a story about it last week and it has yet to be rejected or accepted (grrr).

It would basically start the CARP process anew, creating a special classification for businesses who gross less than $6M / year. Those businesses would be allowed to participate in the CARP process for free (the original CARP process required a fee to have your opinions heard.) It would also allow those businesses to have a CARP rate different from the giant webcasters. One of the sponsors of the bill is the tech-savvy Rick Boucher (D-VA).

If you support the bill, go here and fill in your information and it will send a fax to your legislators. The process only takes a minute and if everyone does it, maybe it'll pass.

We have a few major AP articles on the state of spam today and where it's going, plus we have this tidbit hitting the national news.

This is an election year in the US!

Print out these articles and mail them off to your congresscritter and your class II senator if you have one. Include a letter talking about how spam is an issue to you and how you'd like to see things like this happen to junk e-mailers as well. Maybe talk about how similar the two are (using the recipients expensive communications equipment without permission or reimbursemet). Mail some letters off to anybody else running for those seats that you know of.

Write them! Now! You don't even have to get up off your asses for this one! Just open the damned StarWrite window and write!

Thursday, August 8th, 6pm
Sepulveda Middle School Auditorium
Corner of Plummer and Sepulveda, North Hills, CA

I'm sure we can't change his mind, but at the very least he can feel some heat from his constituents.

I find it supicious that these people claim that the blobs start out 6" accross, and then shrink way down to dry 1" spots, yet there are only pictures of the spots.

In a google image search of the word sidewalk, here are the first few pics that come up in which the sidewalk can be seen clearly enough to make out any potential spots:
spots
No spots (but close in)
2 small spots
no spots, but quite funny
no spots
small spots
small spots

Ok, so there is some background spotting on many sidewalks, which MAY explain the smaller ones. The yet unphotographed larger ones could be from public exaguration/hysteria. here are several examples of such events. In particular look at the seattle winshield pitting in 1954, and the school gas leaks in 88. I'd bet that those spots are usualy there, just that nobody paid attention until now.

Yes.

speaking of individually listing congressmen who are for/against these things. is there any easy way to get voting records for what they actually did in previous congressional votes? i'd like to know what my representatives voted for last term before i go to the polls.

Don't know if there is any easy way to check on it, but you can find records of any bill's vote in the senate here, and in the house here

it takes a little time though, gotta go through and click which session the bill was voted on during, then click the number of the bill itself, then click "Bill status", then wade thru all the different yea and nays it goes through till it ends (they vote on some of these things a LOT of times as various ammendments are proposed, and finding the real final vote can be a fair bit of work)

It's all there, but it's far from user friendly and designed for the masses, doubt many people spend much time doing it. Probably mostly done by reporters and politicians looking to dig up dirt on their opponents. An easy to use site that made it all fairly quick to check on would be sweet, but it would likely entail a lot of time and effort.

Don't say it...don't say it...I'm warning you...

Use Linux.

Damn, I said it.

Why the fuck don't people want exploits fully disclosed? Sure, I don't have a problem with waiting a week or so to give a team/vendor (yes, even Microsoft) a chance to roll out a patch before making it public. It's a courtesy, not a necessity.

<rant />
Clearly some sort of political action is required. I suggest:

1. The DMCA needs to be repealed or ruled unconstitutional. Hopefully the ACLU or the EFF will take a case that'll get us there. Or some rich philanthropist geek could 'violate' it by exercising their constitutional rights. But the best ploy is for every one of *us* to contact (visit,snailmail,fax,call,email) 'our' reps in the House and Senate, rationally outline our objections, and protest like hell if they don't. Civil disobedience, etc.

2. Abolish corporate personhood (same methods).

3. Abolish the lobby industry.

4. Abolish campaign finance. Make it publicly funded, free TV-radio spots (public airwaves) equally distributed among ballot-qualified candidates.

We've let corporations have far too much swing. I'm all for making a buck, but Jesus F***ing Christ...

Contact your Representative

Contacting the Senate is a little harder since they don't have as nice a web-feedback engine (each senator has a different system), but it is still pretty dang simple.

Found the story:
http://www.house.gov/hunter/LtDaly.htm

I've received two letters from my congressman over the last few months in response to electronic correspondence I've sent via this webpage that were clearly personalized responses, not "form letters". Moreover, my congressman doesn't know me personally. I've never given him money. And right now I deliver pizza for a living. There was no reason whatsoever for him (or one of his staff, although the responses I received were sufficiently detailed that if it were his staff then his staff knows his positions on everything) to give me the time of day other than the fact that I'm a voter in his district (and my correspondence was brief, timely as to the issues involved, and not a rant or flame.)

It is time for everyone to start faxing their Congressmen. E-mail is too easy to ignore, and snailmail takes too long if it even gets there.

Contact your Congressman, although many don't have fax numbers on their website. You can always call.

Everytime this appears we get a bunch of "we'll show them posters" threatening all kinds of interesting punishments. Forget it.

If/When the law passes each attempt to hack into their computers for any reason will be met with the recently passes "capital crime" of hacking punishment.

You are an individual. They are a corporation.
You are a terrorist. They are protecting the rights of American copyright holders.
You will get 5 - 25 years. They will get new releases on how good a job they are doing stopping these kids from stealing their products.
They donate large sums of money to congress. You are listed as a non-voting demographic. [Better than opposition party or extremist, you are a non-entity.]

I will be surprised if this makes the nightly news anywhere. They want this to be a non-story and will pay plenty to keep it that way. Any story that does arise will be spinning the "protecting America against copyright theft."

If you really want to do something, take five minutes, right now and FAX your representatives [You could try email. Are they any better at reading them today than last year?].

Be polite, be firm and be specific. DMCA got passed because many people expected someone else(our representatives) to see the lunacy in the approach. This just proves we can never underestimate the ability of smart people to do dumb things with the right incentive.

Here are the contacts:
Senate Locator
House of Representative Locator

Do it now

May I suggest that while we are discussing this abomination of a bill here on slashdot we also take the time to open our word processors and write letters to our representatives?

Remember that technically they are supposed to represent US, not the person/corporation with the biggest checkbook.

It may also do well to write your senators -- A similar bill will likely start up there eventualy, or if this mess passes the house it will wind up in the senate eventually.
Find your Representative and your Senators and make your opinion known.

(BTW - remember that paper letters are far more difficult to ignore than outraged emails. Especially en masse.)

Sure you could use the link above to write in electronically, and that's fine, but you should more or less expect that if you don't write a physical letter then you'll be ignored. It's not always competely true, but it's true enough. If you don't write your rep and this thing passes then you've pretty much forfieted your bitching rights.

That is a good start, but we need to do more. write your Representive it is a lot easier to stop a bill from becomming law than it is to take a law and change it.

Write your representative online here

Unfortunately for me, my rep is Lamar Smith (R-TX) who is one of the bill's sponsors.

I wrote him yesterday (before I knew he was a sponsor) and made several objectsions to the bill:
1) It's vigilante justice. False positives -- the MPAA and RIAA have a strong market pressure to ignore false positives, because alternative methods of distribution challenge their business model
2) The "digital piracy" problem is not a problem
3) The MPAA and RIAA have subverted the democratic process and the will of the people regarding copyright law
4) Trying to stop file-trading is futile. Free Speech and "Total Control" Copyright are fundamentally incompatible. The People would rather have Free Speech than the MPAA and RIAA.

I wrote him today and told him I would vote against him.

Where do I send an e-mail? Where do I send a hand written letter?

If you want to contact those 535 Americans who have the power to get rid of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's circumvention ban once and for all, you may contact them here:

Write Your Representative

Write Your Senators

I would like to congratulate all of you who write eloquent replies on Slashdot, however you need to write letters to your "elected officials".

Myself, everytime I read an article on Slashdot which makes my blood boil and pertains to privacy, civil liberties, anti-consumer electronic devices, and/or bad technology legislation, I contact my legislators via email, fax, or snail mail.

Your elected official needs and wants to hear from you on the issues! If they get a mere 10 letters, faxes, or emails on a topic it raises a "red" flag and forces them to look at the issue before unknowing upsetting their constituency.

I urge you to contact these people and let them know what you think on a weekly basis. America is still "Government by the people, for the People."

While you are at it, register to vote!

Lastly, we always hear talk about buying legislation in the form of campaign contributions. Believe it or not, it doesn't cost all that much to buy legislation and once we all get in the habit of contacting our legislative officials and voting, we can donate money to a PAC, donate to campaigns and hire lobbyists. Then the Slashdotter will truly be running with the big dogs, but political involvement has to begin small.

Here are some helpful websites to guide you:

U.S. House of Representatives U.S. Senate Congressional News

I fear if we do not act and unite soon, that we will lose control of the Internet and consumer electronics in the name of Patriotism and anti-piracy.

They just know they introduced their bills way too late and don't want to wait.

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

Aside from complaining to the FCC (kudos to sub4hleet for this,) you should write your congressional reps. Here's how to find them:

US House of Representatives

US Senate

Here's some free (as in freedom) sample text for a letter:

Dear Hon. [Senator or Rep Name],

I'm writing in regards to a recent FCC ruling concerning the privacy of your telephone conversations, as well as those of your staff and your constituents. The ruling is profiled in an article in PCWorld Magazine, which is available at this Web site:

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,102743,0 0.asp

The key points of the ruling are summarized in the opening paragraphs of the article:

"Phone companies now can share a consumer's private information with certain affiliates without first getting that customer's consent, a new Federal Communications Commission ruling says. Details of who customers call, when they call, and how long they talk may be shared with communications-related corporate affiliates, the ruling says. Customers can choose to keep such information private, but must initiate the request. The carrier does not have to ask permission."

I believe this ruling represents an egregious threat to my privacy, as well as the privacy of all Americans. As such, I urge you in the strongest possible terms to use the powers of your office promptly and vigorously to persuade the FCC to reverse this ruling, or (at a minimum) alter it such that it is an "Opt In" style program (in which consumers must explicitly give permission to the phone company to share this data.)

Thank you for your attention. I sincerely appreciate the efforts of you and your staff on behalf of all [Your State] - Keep up the great work!

Your Sincere Constituent,

[Your name AND address - Include your four-digit zip code extension!]

Note that you'll have to use Web-based forms to contact these folks - They like to make sure you're one of their constituents before they read your mail.

That being said: If every slashdot reader were to write a simple letter to their senators & congressmen about fair use, there'd be no stopping us. So go... right now... and write your letter, I plan to. If you don't, don't bitch about losing your fair use rights when it does happen.

I'll second that. At the VERY least, place a phone call to your US Senators and US Representative. This is a 30-second (literally) process, and is the bare minimum that anyone concerned by this issue should do. It at least gets another tick-mark in the "no" column for DRM issues.

By all means, if you're more motivated, write, fax , email, or even set up a meeting with your rep's local staffer. I did that - it's not bad, and you can usually get a meeting with them within a day or so.

If you need to brush up on talking points, Digital Consumer has a lot of great references, FAQs, etc. Make your points in a calm, logical manner, pointing out that DRM A) won't stop piracy, B) will retard the technological innovation that has pushed our economy in the past 50 years, and C) only serves the interests of a few fat-cat media cartels.

But, please, do something to help stop this. We as a community dropped the ball on the DMCA, and look where it's gotten us. We can't afford to do the same on DRM.

Taken from Chairman Powell's public statement:
"But we conclude, albeit somewhat reluctantly, that under the court's constitutional analysis, companies may satisfy the somewhat less stringent requirement of giving consumers the chance to "opt-out" of intracompany communications-related use of CPNI.(1)

(1) The court instructed the Commission to consider an opt-out strategy, which the court concluded was "an obvious and substantially less restrictive alternative" to opt-in. U.S. West v. FCC, 182 F.3d 1224, 1238 (10th Cir. 1999), cert. denied 530 U.S. 1213 (2000)"

Contact the Court of Appeals and complain. Also, contact your local representative.

-Lucas

I tried calling his office at the Committee on Courts a while back to express my opinions on the DMCA. The arrogance and condescension expressed by his staffer on the phone was absolutely staggering (bet you didn't realize that it was actually possible to sneer over the phone). I lost a lot of faith in my elected representatives and the process in general that day.

What would you consider to be examples of American `organizations' acting in a `totalitarian and domineering' manner overseas? What are your sources for these examples?

Here's a speech on the topic. A newspaper article is here originally published in the Boston Globe. There's a good essay on the subject here, although I am sure you'll pooh-pooh this one as you do anything associated with the UN, the author is extremely credible. I leave the rest of the trivial google searching you can use to do your own research to you.

Or to turn the whole thing on its head, since it is plain to even the metaphorical "Blind Freddy" that large companies get away with whatever they are not specifically prohibited from doing, and act in a totalitarian and domineering manner (click to look 'em up if you have trouble) whenever they possibly can (hence the extremely large amount of legislation existing to regulate corporate behaviour especially monopolistic behaviour) what point, exactly, are you attempting to make?

See the 1997 Congressional hearings on EMP protection.

I'm a government consultant for a large institution on the east coast, known for its strongarm tactics. We have recently been contacted by some of our constituents about this so-called "file sharing" that's a goin' on on the internet. Our job is to put the kabosh on it, tout suite! However, before we lace up the jackboots, we wanted to know what a bunch of college students and open source advocates thought.

What an utterly laughable idea.

I realize this is a little off-topic, but I felt it necessary to try to showcase a little better who the man behind the article is.

Not many of you may really know who Boucher is, heck, I admit that I would be unable to write even a small biography on the man without a lot of hard work. However, this guy is perhaps one of the few folk in Congress who really understands and cares about what the Internet is and what it can become.

While most politicians can be seen as either paying lip service about Internet freedoms or attacking outright the freedoms guaranteed to us, Boucher has proven time and time again that there politicians out there who, for the most part, look out for us.

Now, I'm not in his district and I couldn't vote for him even if I wanted to. He's never seen a dime of my money and I have never even so much have written an email or letter to him. Hell, I'm not even a Democrat. However, this man is perhaps one of the few people whom we need to encourage to continue to fight for our rights. Likewise, we need to begin encouraging our own representatives to follow his lead.

It may sound like I'm bullshitting you about this and that I have some ulterior motive. I don't. I'll let his record speak for itself,

http://www.house.gov/boucher/internet.htm

Anyway, I don't post on Slashdot anymore unless I really have something to say. All I'm trying to say now is, "take a look at this guy, see what he's about, what he's done and decide for yourself."

As a closing thought as to what kind of vision this guy has, he was the one back in 1992 that allowed the NSF (National Science Foundation) network to carry non-educational or scientific traffic... i.e., commodity Internet traffic. This effectively made the Internet what it is today. Al Gore and others may claim they invented the Internet. Boucher makes no such claim, but could largely be credited with the one that made it legal to become what it is today.

Anywho, I'll get off the podium now... but when someone does something right by me I want to make sure everyone who has an interest knows so. This guy is the real deal. Support him and tell your representatives to support him. He is truly "our man on the inside".

I think we need a copy of Rep. Boucher around. Up here in Canada, we already have a far too restrictive levy on blank media which benefits our equivalent of the RI/MPAA, and it's kind of a pain to be paying these folks so I can put my files on CD-R to send them to my project boss... grr...

We could also use a copy of Dennis Kucinich around, although (to me) an imperfect copy that would respect the law here in Canada that keeps religious ideology off people's reproductive organs would be better.

But you can't have everything, so the least I can do is hope some people grow spines in the near future.

On the other hand, had I US citizenship (they don't, for some reason, seem to listen to foreign nationals), I would be writing to all the appropriate people. I'm nevertheless concerned, because US policy seems to be a bellweather for trends here at home.

Email is definitely the way to go. Fax is second best; physical mail gets tied up in decontamination procedures.

I'm going to model my email on yours, and I'll go one step further. I'll email my own representative and senators, pointing out that I would like them to support Boucher on this, and that I'll be watching for results.

BTW, the Senate has a nice site for finding contact info on your senators, and the House has an online email form.

Just like everyone in Congress and Senate, except for Rep. Ron Paul. We need Congressional Representatives that hold the rachet of big government back. This guy is taking one step forward for ever 5 steps that the other laws he votes for takes.

Stop congratulating yourself. Vote libertarian, and let's return this country to a free and artistically open country, rather than one that caters to big business.

Campaign finance reform will only make big business stronger. The only way to protect our rights and keep business out of it is to elect representatives with a backbone -- ones that know that THE POWER OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS LIMITED.

Rick Boucher - Virginia-9th, Democrat

Committess
* Committee on Energy and Commerce
* Committee on the Judiciary

Sub-committees
* Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property (Judiciary)
* Energy and Air Quality (Energy and Commerce)
* Telecommunications and the Internet (Energy and Commerce)

I never even heard of the NetCaucus but he seems to be majorly involved with Internet and Government. Wonder who else is belongs to this caucus and "Gets It"...

We need to support this man!

You can find his statement on Fair Use here

And his official web site can be found here

We need to support this man!

You can find his statement on Fair Use here

And his official web site can be found here