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I have not verified this BUT it might interest some Subject: House approves anti-consumer Y2K legislation! The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday voted 236-190 to approve sweeping legislation that would grant special protections from liability to high tech companies, such as Microsoft and Intel, even if they are responsible for Y2K computer failures. The bill, H.R. 775, proposes unprecedented preemption of state consumer protection laws and would make it difficult, if not impossible, for individual consumers and small businesses to recover fair compensation and hold wrongdoers accountable for Y2K failures. The biggest problems with this anti-consumer, anti-small business legislation are that it: 1). provides a disincentive to Y2K remediation by shielding those who sold non-compliant products from full liability. Thus, they need not worry about making their best efforts to prevent these failures before January 2000. 2). will hurt small businesses and individuals that suffer the ill effects of Y2K failures by making it more difficult to receive compensation. 3). does nothing to help consumers and small businesses. For example, there is no requirement to fix Y2K failures quickly and for an affordable price. The bill is solely designed to grant special protections to big business. The Senate will soon resume debate on its Y2K bill, S.96. Send your Senator a free fax from Public Citizen's website to let him/her know that you do not support granting special legal immunity to the high-tech industry. https://www.citizen.org/faxserver/letter2/step1.htm For more information on this harmful, anti-consumer legislation, visit Public Citizen's "Y2K Liability" website at: http://www.citizen.org/congress/civjus/y2k/index.html ============================= Andrew Englander Legislative Assistant Public Citizen's Congress Watch Washington, DC 20003 ------------------------------------------------------- Regards, Glenn _______________________________________________ Glenn Ericson, IBM Certified Specialist Phoenix Consulting LLC P. O. Box 701164 East Elmhurst NY 11370-3164 USA Phone 718 898 9805 Fax 718 446 1150 AS/400 & Year 2000- - Solutions Specialists © copyright 1996 - 1999 all rights reserved _______________________________________________ +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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