Senate to vote on Y2K bailout June 15 ---- name and email address for 14 key Senate swing votes

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

Senate to vote on Y2K bailout June 15 ---- name and email address for 14
key Senate swing votes

If you think it makes sense bail out companies that have failed
to correct y2k problems, before we even know who they are 
and what they did, then you might want to support the 
anti-consumer liability y2k legislation, S. 96.

If you think this is highly irreponsible and counter-productive
(why not let people sweat a little and work to fix the 
problem, and find out what happened before we bail people out?)
then please write the Senators below to kill this bad legislation.

If this bill passes, you will find out what rights have been 
taken away from you after you find out if you are a victim
of someone else's mistakes, and only after you find out
what has happened or how it could have been avoided.  

Contact Brian Dooley on Public Citizen for more info.


   Jamie

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Subject: y2k stuff
   Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 12:34:00 -0400
   From: Brian Dooley <bdooley@citizen.org>
 Organization: Public Citizen
        To: 
           love@cptech.org


The final Senate vote on the anti-consumer Y2K Liability Limit bill is
set 
for Tuesday, June 15.

S. 96 has nothing for consumers but is simply a give-away to special 
interest lobbyists.  
The bill will hurt small businesses and individuals that suffer the ill 
effects of Y2K failures, provide a disincentive to Y2K remediation and
not 
require that a single defective computer chip or software program be
fixed.  
While the bill delays consumer actions to recover losses for 90 days, 
nothing in the bill requires that anything be done during that period to
fix 
the Y2K failures quickly and for an affordable price.

Despite their vociferous pleading over the past months that the bill
must be 
passed immediately, proponents of the measure postponed the vote to
coincide 
with the National Summit on High Technology, being held in Washington
June 
14-16, allowing hundreds of CEOs -- including Microsoft Chairman Bill
Gates, 
IBM Chairman Louis V. Gerstner, Intel President Craig Barrett, TechNet 
President Robert Katz, Adobe Systems Chairman John Warnock, and Novell 
Chairman Eric Schmidt -- to lobby for this special legal shield.

Please e-mail the following U.S. Senators Who May Vote Against Consumers
and 
Small Businesses on Getting Y2K Defects Fixed and Urge Them to Vote
Against 
the Y2K Bill

Senator Bryan (D-NV) senator@bryan.senate.gov
Senator Reid (D-NV)     senator_reid@reid.senate.gov
Senator Byrd (D-WV)     senator_byrd@byrd.senate.gov
Senator Moynihan (D-NY) senator@dpm.senate.gov
Senator Robb (D-VA) senator@robb.senate.gov
Senator Baucus (D-MT)   max@baucus.senate.gov
Senator Kerrey (D-NE)           bob@kerrey.senate.gov
Senator Murray (D-WA)   senator_murray@murray.senate.gov
Senator Kohl (D-WI)     senator_kohl@kohl.senate.gov
Senator Lautenberg (D-NJ)       Frank_Lautenberg@Lautenberg.senate.gov
Senator Roth (R-DE)     omments@roth.senate.gov
Senator Specter (R-PA)  senator_specter@specter.senate.gov
Senator Thompson (R-TN) senator_thompson@thompson.senate.gov
Senator Campbell (R- CO) administrator@cambell.senate.gov




-- 
James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
I can be reached at love@cptech.org, by telephone 202.387.8030,
by fax at 202.234.5176. CPT web page is http://www.cptech.org