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Some important folks believe legislation represents the best chance for eradicating junk e-mail. I'm dubious: U.S. laws can be enforced only within U.S. borders. Unfortunately, a bill sponsored by Senators Frank Murkowski (R., Alaska) and Robert Torricelli (D., N.J.), which unanimously passed the Senate on May 13 and is being considered by the House, might actually aggravate the spam scene. The bill would fine junk mailers who hide their return addresses--that is, the vast majority of spammers. It would require them to list their real snail-mail addresses, telephone numbers and legal names. And supposedly, spammers would...
...everywhere," an excited Babbitt told a Senate budget hearing. They are wiping out native plant species, putting power lines on the fritz and infiltrating sewer systems. The Clinton Administration?s solution? One million dollars for fresh research. Senators remain skeptical. Instead of big bucks for scientific dithering, Senator Frank Murkowski, an Alaska Republican who heads the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, suggests offering children a $1 bounty for each snake they nab. "I'll go out with my pile of dollar bills and you come out with your scientists and we'll see who gets more snakes," Murkowski challenged...
...watch in horror as the global timber machine chews up the world's wilderness, the Tongass had become a test of whether even the richest nation on earth can muster the will to control the forces of deforestation. Logging supporters, and that would include Alaska's Republican Senator Murkowski, seethe over any attempts to restrict harvesting of what they view as a renewable resource...
...threatened to close the Tongass pulp operation if Congress did not extend the contract for 15 years beyond its 2004 expiration date and restore bargain-basement timber prices. With Alaska's delegation occupying key positions on congressional committees, it looked as though KPC would get its way, and Murkowski would protect the state's jobs. Said he: "If the pulp operation goes, all logging in southeast Alaska will collapse as well...
When it became clear that other Republicans, already bruised by the backlash to the perceived antienvironmental bias of their party, were unwilling to help him, Murkowski shifted his strategy. As Congress tried to adjourn, he vowed to hold up an omnibus parks bill that would, among many other provisions, protect Sterling Forest in the Northeast and provide funding for San Francisco's Presidio, a new national park, unless the Administration agreed to supply cheap timber for KPC's sawmills. He failed, settling for an agreement that would provide timber to the mills at market prices for a two-year transition...