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...telcom companies. If a similar House proposal passes, the result could be a free market bazaar that would -- asbill author Sen. Larry Pressler(R-S.D.) predicted today -- "result inlower telephone rates, lower cable rates and more servicesto the American public." But a leading opponent, Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.), warned that such swift and massive deregulation would only strengthen telecommunications giants.TIME's Suneel Ratansays the bill constitutes a grand, laissez-faire experiment with a $700 billion industry. The result may be more choice and cheaper service, but of a different sort, says Ratan -- "like when shopping malls replace downtown...
...overwhelmingly approved ameasure that would ban the transmission of sexually-explicit or "indecent" material over online computer services and the Internet.The 84-16 vote late Wednesday on the amendment -- part of a sweeping telecommunications reform bill expected to pass today -- backed provisions sponsored by Sen. James Exon (D-Neb.), who peppered a floor speech with references to "disgusting" pictures and material culled from the Internet this week. Exon's amendment, whose victory has sent free-speech advocates into a tailspin, would impose fines of up to $100,000 and prison terms of up to two years forknowingly transmitting"obscene, lewd...
...full relations with Vietnam,relatives of soldiers missing in Vietnam oppose the moveas long as the MIA issue remains unresolved. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), aformer Vietnam War POWwho has long supported normalizing relations, says he will offer a Senate resolution supporting the move with Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.), who lost a leg in Vietnam. The support of two such distinguished senators and war heroes, saysTIME Diplomatic correspondent Dean Fischer, makes the move much more likely...
Tilahun and Tadesse worked closely on schoolwork, McMillin said, but "their personalities were quite different. Neb is more gregarious and social and humorous...
Sens. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.) and Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) today unveiled a blueprint forfixing the ultimate political sacred cow, Social Security, before the system becomes insolvent in 2030. On the list: raising the retirement age, curbing cost of living increases and allowing workers to invest some of their own payroll taxes inIndividual Retirement Accounts. Kerrey, who co-chairs a federal deficit-cutting commission, failed to get even a majority of that panel to endorse those ideas in December. Today, the senators took their warnings directly to the people: "As a nation, we are consciously damning our children...