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In article <1992Sep5.044504.20441@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
>I have been told that the following 2 things are before the Senate, but
>cannot locate them in Congressional Record and similar sources.  Can
>anyone elucidate?
>
>(1) A bill to abolish private consulting, "Senate 1706", mentioned by
>a correspondent to Robert Pease in a recent issue of _Electronic Design_.
>(There _is_ a Senate 1706, but it has to do with import duties on some
>industrial chemicals.)

Don't know anthing about this.

>(2) A bill to ban receivers that can tune in cellular phones.
>(Right now, eavesdropping is illegal but the equipment itself isn't.)

The last version of this I saw (it was part of the FCC funding bill
for 1992) did not have a Total ban that included existing equipment,
BUT it did set a future date (6 months I think) after which 
manufacturers would have to have eliminated any cellular frequency
coverage from any receiver they manufactured.  There was no exception
for test equipment, etc.

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