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The measure had problems from the start. In its original version it would have made online-service providers criminally liable for any obscene communications that passed through their systems--a provision that, given the way the networks operate, would have put the entire Internet at risk. Exon and Coats revised...
Some children's advocates were buoyed last week when the Senate approved an amendment to its telecommunications bill requiring that new TV sets be equipped with a so-called V-chip, a device that would allow parents to block out programming deemed to be violent. But a similar amendment considered...
Brushing aside Clinton Administration concerns that the measure could create invincible media giants and hurt consumers, the Senate passed, 81 to 18, a sweeping measure that would deregulate the telephone, cable and broadcasting industries and allow companies to enter one another's fields of business. The bill also seeks to...
Washington and Pyongyang reached an agreement to provide North Korea with two South Korean nuclear reactors, a central provision of the agreement signed by the U.S. and North Korea last October to dismantle North Korea's suspected nuclear-weapons program.
Responding to Congressional pressure, the Labor Department has decided not to issue any rules onrepetitive strain injuries, the painful symptoms often attributed to workranging from chicken-plucking to word-processing. In their push to reduce government regulations, Republican lawmakers have argued againstsetting any RSI standards. Although President Clinton recently vetoed...