roundtable: Re: TPR Meeting Cancellation (?)

roundtable: Re: TPR Meeting Cancellation (?)

Re: TPR Meeting Cancellation (?)

Craig A. Johnson (caj@tdrs.com)
Thu, 21 Dec 1995 16:52:07 +0000 

Message-Id: <199512212158.QAA01571@clark.net>
From: "Craig A. Johnson" <caj@tdrs.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <roundtable@cni.org>
Date:          Thu, 21 Dec 1995 16:52:07 +0000
Subject:       Re: TPR Meeting Cancellation (?)


On 21 Dec 95 at 9:23, William J. Drake wrote:
> 
> Emily, folks,
> 
> While I'm new to town and TPR, I would suggest that with the 
> Communications Consolidation Act winging its way out of the
> conference committee and toward passage, I can't imagine a *worse*
> time to cancel a TPR meeting.  People have been working to
> improve/oppose this stinker for years, so it hardly seems right to
> bag the meeting because of our holiday schedules and let its passage
> go unnoted.  Shouldn't we be talking, concretely, about how to
> respond?

I agree with Bill on this one.  But don't assume there will be a bill 
reported out of committee and voted upon by the time of the meeting, 
regardless of what you read in the papers this am.

As Pressler said today, there is only a "framework for an agreement" 
in place, and the House Republicans (with the exception of Bliley who 
was ready to file the conf. report and vote) have balked, and it 
appears as if there will be a new round of scuffling.

People ought to look over the 46 recommendations by the staff, which 
can be found on the ACC web page http://www.bell.com.

The media concentration issues and the telco entry into long distance 
are still up in the air.  All indications are that both the conferees 
and the Administration intend to throttle the Internet as planned 
with the odious "indecency" standard.  The "wiggle room" on that 
seems to have completely disappeared.  I would sure like to 
understand why the White House could not have confronted that issue 
more directly.  It's not as if the Constitution is unimportant, I 
assume.

Craig 


Craig A. Johnson
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Telecommunications/Information Policy Specialist
Transnational Data Reporting Service, Inc.
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caj@tdrs.com

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