CABLE TELEVISION CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT

Agreements

Provisions (S. 12), S672 [30JA]

Amendments

Enact (S. 12), S564, S567, S568, S569, S570, S580, S581, S582, S589, S592, S600, S604, S605, S608, S609, S610, S611 [29JA], S636, S643, S644, S645, S646, S649, S652, S661, S663, S666, S667, S687, S688, S689 [30JA]

Analyses

Provisions (S. 12), H8320-H8335 [14SE]

Appointments

Conferees: S. 12, enact, S12557 [12AU]

Articles and editorials

Attys. Gen. Threaten PrimeStar Suit, S739 [31JA]

Bush Should Veto Proposal To Reregulate Cable TV, S16668 [5OC]

Cable Bill Needs More Consumer Protection, S14228 [21SE]

Cable Bill Should Die, S14227, S14242 [21SE]

Cable Bill Would End Up Hurting Consumers, S16671 [5OC]

Cable Bill—Static and Snow, S16671 [5OC]

Cable Capers—Even if Rates Fall, Viewers Could Pay More, S16669 [5OC]

Cable Firms Say They Welcome Competition but Behave Otherwise—Some Established Systems Go to Great Lengths to Keep Rivals Out of the Game, S16653-S16655 [5OC]

Cable Industry's Changing Picture, S14232 [21SE]

Cable Kibosh, S13699 [17SE], S14226 [21SE]

Cable Lobby—At the Tone, Get Irate at Your Senator, S14153 [18SE], S14223 [21SE]

Cable Rate Flier Draws Heavy Flak, S13169 [10SE]

Cable Ready, S14231 [21SE]

Cable Regulation Isn't a Need, S14235 [21SE]

Cable Regulation Won't Reduce Bills, S16670 [5OC]

Cable Reregulation Bill Costs May Be Exaggerated, S16655 [5OC]

Cable Television Re-Regulation Passed by House, S16655 [5OC]

Cable Television Service Should Stay Unregulated, S14231 [21SE]

Cable TV Bill Meant Well, But Has Become Overloaded, S14230 [21SE]

Cable TV Lobbying Sparks Caller Anger, S14154 [18SE], S14223 [21SE]

Cable TV Protection Fraud, S14228 [21SE]

Cable TV Regulation—Phony Consumerism in an Election Year, S14228 [21SE]

Cable TV—Rate Regulation Isn't the Best Answer, S14226 [21SE]

Cable's Congressional Nanny, S16668 [5OC]

Cable-TV Bill Isn't It, S16670 [5OC]

Cable-TV ``Gouging'' Isn't the Problem, S14232 [21SE]

Cable-TV Industry Backs Senate Bill in Effort To Defeat Regulatory Plan, S733 [31JA]

Careful on Cable, S14235 [21SE]

Congress at the Cable TV Switch, S16669 [5OC]

Congress' Clumsy Check on Cable Rates, S14227 [21SE]

Congress Resorts To Overkill in Controlling Cable Rates, S14242 [21SE]

Cost of Cable TV, S14234 [21SE]

Crippling Cable Television, S14230 [21SE]

Danger Signals on Cable TV Regulation, S14236 [21SE]

Distorting the Cable TV Bill, S16671 [5OC]

Don't Re-Regulate Cable TV, S14227 [21SE]

Don't Stifle Cable TV With Foolish Overregulation, S14235, S14241 [21SE]

For a Restrained Grip on Cable, S14229 [21SE]

Great Cable TV Battle, S16666 [5OC]

Haywire Regulation, S14229 [21SE]

How To Break the Cable Squeeze, S14230 [21SE]

In Cable War, Consumers Get Snagged, S16667 [5OC]

Keeping Cable's Price Within Sight, S14234 [21SE]

Leave Cable TV Alone, S14236 [21SE]

Let Market Regulate Prices, S14236 [21SE]

Let's Not Rerun That Turkey, S14227 [21SE]

Meddlesome Bill, S16670 [5OC]

Nightmare For Cable, S14230 [21SE]

Protecting Cable TV Customers, S14229 [21SE]

Reeling Over Cable, S14228 [21SE]

Regulations Not Needed, S16670 [5OC]

Reregulating Cable TV, S16668 [5OC]

Reregulating Means Tying Up Cable, S16667 [5OC]

Second Thoughts on Cable Bill, S14229 [21SE]

Senate Bill Amounts to Free TV Surcharge, S14233 [21SE]

Senate Cable Bill—A Fuzzy Picture, S14231 [21SE]

Stop Protecting Us, S16669 [5OC]

Tangled Wires—Cable TV Industry Needs Competition, Not Regulation, S14236 [21SE]

Time To Leave Cable TV Alone, S14233 [21SE]

Uncle Sam in Charge of Cable, S14226, S14242, S14256 [21SE], S16671 [5OC]

Unsound Bites To Kill the Cable Bill, S14607 [22SE]

Urge To Rein in Cable TV, S14232 [21SE]

Why You Need the Cable Bill, S14607 [22SE]

Wrong Re-Regulation, S16669 [5OC]

Bills and resolutions

Enact (S. 12): waiving points of order against conference report (see H. Res. 571), H8646 [16SE]

Cloture motions

Enact (S. 12), S14027 [18SE]

Factsheets

Cable Television Since the 1984 Cable Act, S16662 [5OC]

National Cable Statistics, S717 [31JA]

Statistics for Montana Cable, S717 [31JA]

Letters

Provisions: FCC, S14237 [21SE]

———Joseph S. Daddona, H11485 [5OC]

———National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters, S713 [31JA]

———National Association of Broadcasters, S13163 [10SE], S14240, S14241 [21SE]

———President Bush, S13699 [17SE], S14226, S14250 [21SE]

———Senator Burns and Representative Lent, S16666 [5OC]

———Senator Wirth, S14241 [21SE]

———Tele-Communications, Inc., S720 [31JA]

Purchase of The Learning Channel: Discovery Communications, Inc., S753 [31JA]

Lists

Groups endorsing S. 12, S421 [27JA]

Messages

Veto of S. 12, Provisions: President Bush, S16666 [5OC], H11477 [5OC]

Motions

Enact (S. 12), H6560 [23JY], H7115 [31JY]

———Breaux motion to table Graham amendment, S585 [29JA]

Remarks in House

Enact (S. 12), H7115 [31JY], H8225 [10SE], H8689 [17SE], H8740, H8741 [18SE], H8840 [22SE]

———conference report, H8671-H8687 [17SE], E2710 [18SE], E2757 [22SE], E2908 [2OC]

———veto, H9133 [23SE], H9304 [24SE], H9447 [25SE], H11200 [4OC], H11354, H11355, H11477-H11488 [5OC], E3193, E3244 [9OC]

———waiving points of order against conference report (H. Res. 571), H8649-H8659 [17SE]

Remarks in Senate

Antitrust policy: cable television regulation of programming and rates, S661, S662 [30JA]

Children and youth: establish cable and television voluntary guidelines to control violence in commercials, S667 [30JA]

Enact (S. 12), S400, S408-S433, S436-S438 [27JA], S561-S595, S600-S605 [29JA], S627, S635-S638, S639-S641, S642-S651, S652, S653, S654-S664, S666-S668, S671-S676 [30JA], S711, S712-S770 [31JA], S1505 [7FE], S12740 [12AU], S13163, S13168 [10SE], S13467 [15SE], S13576 [16SE], S14153 [18SE]

———conference report, S13544 [15SE], S13698 [17SE], S14027 [18SE], S14222-S14256 [21SE], S14583, S14590, S14600-S14616 [22SE]

———conference requested, S12557 [12AU]

———order to print, S2610 [27FE]

———unanimous-consent agreement, S18 [21JA], S14199 [18SE]

———veto, S16244 [2OC], S16460 [3OC], S16652-S16677 [5OC]

Telephones: transmission of cable television to rural areas and clarify franchising authority, S666 [30JA]

Reports

Market Power and Price Increases for Basic Cable Service Since Deregulation, August 6, 1991, S739 [31JA]

Regulation of Cable Television Rates: Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, S724-S726 [31JA]

Reports by conference committees

Provisions (S. 12), H8308-H8320 [14SE]

Reports filed

Provisions: Committee on Energy and Commerce (S. 12) (H. Rept. 102-862), H8357 [14SE]

Waiving Points of Order Against Conference Report on S. 12: Committee on Rules (H. Res. 571) (H. Rept. 102-869), H8646 [16SE]

Statements

Home Shopping Station Licensing: Representative Dingell, E2908 [2OC]

———Representative Eckart, E2908 [2OC]

Provisions: C-SPAN, S759 [31JA]

———OMB, S712, S723 [31JA]

———Representative Dingell, E2908 [2OC]

———Representative Eckart, E2908 [2OC], E3193 [9OC]

———Senator Stevens, S727 [31JA]

Summaries

Cable Rate Increases in the State of Washington: Consumer Federation of America, S14612 [22SE]

Tables

Annual regulatory costs of S. 12, Cable Television Consumer Protection Act, S16666 [5OC]

District Cablevision (Washington, DC) residential rates and charges, S747 [31JA]

Estimated Number of satellite receiving stations in the U.S., S739 [31JA]

Revenue, pre-tax operating income, operating cash flow, and assets of publicly reporting cable system operators, S743 [31JA]

Texts of

S. 12, provisions, S400-S408 [27JA], S760-S769 [31JA]