Antiterrorism Bill Dead

At last some good news from the Hill. The House Judiciary Committee has announced that they are unable to vote on Chukie Schumer's Antiterrorism bill at this time. It is "dead for now." That means that the $500 million for the telecoms companies to carry out the Digital telphony Initiative is also dead for now. Thanks to an heroic coalition of leftist civil liberties types and right wing nuts (including the Fundies) for squashing it for now. Now if we could only convince the Fundies that the Klinton Admin was going to use the Exxon amendment to outlaw religious speech on the nets on the grounds of political indecency. But maybe the Telecoms bill will die too. It did last time. DCF