109th Congress Did Little For, Or About Tech Sector
December 11, 2006
CNET's Washington, D.C. correspondent Declan McCullagh offers a summary of technology bills and decisions (and lack thereof) made by the 109th Congress.
Reading through his list, it sure makes the recently concluded session as a virtual do-nothing insofar as tech is concerned.
Here's where things stand after Friday night's adjurnment:
- Passed a pretexting bill, on the way to President Bush.
- Failed to grant an increase in the number of H-1B visas, sought by U.S. technologies wishing to add to their ranks of U.S.-based workers from other nations.
- Failed to pass Web censorship and filtering statutes, such as a House-backed bill regulating social networking sites. That bill was backed by (get this) Rep. Mark Foley who called the measure something that would protect "youth from exploitation by adults using the Internet."
- Net neutrality legislation backed by content providers did not pass.
- Additional copyright legislation did not pass.
- An R&D tax credit sought by technology companies went nowhere eitherk but a temporary extension of an already-existing tax credit was granted.
- I guarantee you that the 110th Congress will be different.
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