The Death and Resurrection of CBDTPA

J. Thomas Vincent has sent me an email in response to my reporting on scuttlebutt that Sen. Hollings’ CBDTPA bill won’t pass during this session:

…I’ll go so far as to say that is the conventional wisdom around DC. Leahy doesn’t like it and as long as he is unhappy it’s dead because the bill hits his jurisdiction. I do completely agree though that the pressure needs to be kept up, for while this year and perhaps not even the next Congress will CBDTPA pass. After ’04 regardless of what party wins that will be the session where the battle will really get ugly. That’s why the organization efforts online need to get up and running now, to have a coherent message to politicians well before that cycle. (Not to mention efforts like GeekPAC)

So, we shouldn’t drink so much champagne that we fall asleep while the issue rises from the dead. It ain’t going away so soon.

(GeekPAC is an advocacy group started by Doc Searls and Jeff Gerhardt of The Linux Show.)

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