OR... They are passed by voice vote of "unanimous consent" as was done with the 'brady bill' when only 5 senators were present. amp ------------------------ From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> Subject: Re: House National Security committee guts SAFE, worse than no bill Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 21:55:42 -0700 To: "Brock N. Meeks" <brock@well.com> Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net
At 09:12 PM 9/12/97 -0700, Brock N. Meeks wrote:
Don't count on the language being yanked in Judiciary. The real "only hope" is actually an incredibly low tech and unsexy thing called "time."
The 105th Congress wants to split early, possibly in three weeks! Yes, three weeks (hard working lot, eh?) There is no way this bill gets through the Rules committee with multiple versons floating around and then gets brought to the floor for a vote... won't happen.
Are you sure about this? Traditionally, anti-civil liberties legislations is passed by well over 90% of the vote only days before Congress adjourns.
--Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. DES is dead! Please join in breaking RC5-56. http://rc5.distributed.net/
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