TELEPHONES

Addresses

Preparing for Competition in a Deregulated Telecommunications Market: Joel I. Klein, S7675 [17JY]

Amendments

Crime: improve investigation and prosecution of individuals involved in cloning cellular telephones (S. 493), S9978 [25SE], S12479, S12485, S12486 [10NO]

Articles and editorials

America Online Backs Off Plan To Give Out Phone Numbers, H5810 [25JY]

AOL Will Share Users' Numbers for Telemarketing, H5809 [25JY]

Consolidation Yea or Nay, S2052 [10MR]

Florida Couple To Plead Guilty to Taping GOP Leaders' Cell Phone Call, H1986 [29AP]

It's the Phone Man at the Door—And He Has a Deal on Cable TV—As Competition Breaks Out, a Traveling Salesman Finds a Jaded Audience, E1841 [24SE]

Jump-Start the Urban Classroom Networks, S5148 [23MY]

Latest License Auction Disappoints FCC, S3800 [29AP]

Some Small School Districts Find Good Internet Access Too Expensive, S11306 [29OC]

Trading Market Explodes—1996 Spending Tops $48 Billion, S2051 [10MR]

Weak Antitrust Nominee, S7286 [11JY], S7682 [17JY]

Bills and resolutions

Area codes: prevent splitting of local communities into multiple telephone area codes (see H.R. 1216), H1288 [21MR]

Business and industry: increase the forfeiture penalty for telephone service slamming and require providers of such service to report slamming incidents (see H.R. 2112), H4912 [8JY]

———strengthen and expand the procedures for preventing the slamming of interstate telephone service subscribers (see S. 1051, 1137, 1340; H.R. 2120, 3050), S7862 [22JY], S8533 [31JY], S11343 [29OC], H5020 [9JY], H10954 [13NO]

Computers: discourage telephone access charges for Internet use (see S. Res. 86), S4588 [15MY]

Crime: enhance punishment for telemarketing fraud (see S. 489), S2646 [20MR]

———establish toll-free telephone number for the reporting of stolen and abandoned motor vehicles (see H.R. 501), H282 [4FE]

———improve investigation and prosecution of individuals involved in cloning cellular telephones (see S. 493; H.R. 2460), S2646 [20MR], H7262 [11SE]

———provide for telephone access to the FBI database that tracks the movement and whereabouts of sexual offenders (see H.R. 2194), H5486 [17JY]

———require forfeiture of counterfeit access devices (see S. 1148), S8823 [4SE]

Dept. of Transportation: assist States in adopting nationwide emergency telephone number for cellular telephone users (see H.R. 1011), H888 [11MR]

FCC: designate certain common carriers as eligible for universal service support (see S. 1354), S11545 [31OC]

———set minimum reserve price for auctions of any license, permit, or right (see S. 663), S3799 [29AP]

Immigration: establish a telephone reporting system to permit certain individuals traveling by boat to enter the U.S. from Canada without applying for admission at a port of entry (see H.R. 1384), H1705 [17AP]

Older Americans Act: establish additional pension counseling demonstration projects and create a toll-free pension counseling telephone number (see S. 948), S6041 [20JN]

Political campaigns: require certain disclosures and reports relative to polling by telephone or electronic device (see H.R. 248, 2075, 2528, 2529), H147 [9JA], H4834 [26JN], H7729 [23SE]

———require disclosure of certain phone bank communications (see H.R. 498), H282 [4FE]

Privacy: protection of Social Security numbers (see H.R. 2581), H8264 [30SE]

———protection of Social Security numbers and other personal information (see S. 600; H.R. 1813), S3269 [16AP], H3567 [5JN]

Taxation: treatment of certain income received by cooperative telephone companies (see S. 791), S5001 [22MY]

Telecommunications: assure competition in markets (see S. 954), S6186 [24JN]

———availability of universal service relative to Native Americans and Alaskan natives (see H.R. 486, 555), H244 [21JA], H284 [4FE]

———availability of universal service to Native Americans and Alaskan natives (see H. Res. 29), H156 [9JA]

———Government treatment of universal service support payments (see H. Res. 200), H5916 [28JY]

———preserve State and local authority to regulate the placement, construction, and modification of certain facilities (see S. 1350), S11448 [30OC]

———require an annual report to Congress on telecommunications services (see S. 665), S3799 [29AP]

———State regulation of citizens band radio frequency interference with residential electronic or telephone equipment (see S. 608; H.R. 2383), S3348 [17AP], H6797 [3SE]

———universal service support for schools and libraries (see H.R. 280), H148 [9JA]

Telecommunications Act: repeal amendments on obscene and harassing use of telecommunications facilities (see S. 213), S726 [28JA]

Letters

Allocation of revenues from universal telecommunications service fund to balance Federal budget: Aubrey L. Sarvis, Bell Atlantic and Thomas J. Tauke, Nynex (business), S8337 [30JY]

———John F. O'Neal, Michael E. Brunner and John N. Rose, Rural Telephone Coalition, S8072 [24JY]

———Roy Neel, U.S. Telephone Association, S8072 [24JY]

Allow Bell Operating Cos. entry into long distance service: Representative Bliley, Committee on Commerce (House), S7289 [11JY], S7681 [17JY]

Nomination of Joel I. Klein to be Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division: Janet Reno, Attorney General, S7683 [17JY]

———Joel I. Klein, Dept. of Justice, S7287-S7289 [11JY]

———Senator Burns, S7678 [17JY]

———Senator Dorgan, S7687 [17JY]

———Senator Kerrey, S7682 [17JY]

———Senators Hollings and Dorgan, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate), S7683 [17JY]

State regulation of citizens band radio frequency interference with residential electronic or telephone equipment: Mary T. Hegarty, Grand Rapids, MI, City Commission, S5943 [18JN]

Subpoena of LiPing Chen Hudson's telephone records by Committee on Government Reform and Oversight (House) relative to campaign contributions investigation: Doris Cox, Bell Atlantic Corp., H9610 [28OC]

———Ted Hudson, H9610 [28OC]

Telecommunications policies regulating competition: Howard M. Metzenbaum, Gene Kimmelman, and Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation of America, S7682 [17JY]

———President Clinton, S7290 [11JY], S7674 [17JY]

Remarks in House

Business and industry: strengthen and expand the procedures for preventing the slamming of interstate telephone service subscribers (H.R. 3050), E2362 [13NO]

Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act: implementation, H10939 [13NO]

Crime: improve investigation and prosecution of individuals involved in cloning cellular telephones (H.R. 2460), E1733 [11SE]

———provide for telephone access to the FBI database that tracks the movement and whereabouts of sexual offenders (H.R. 2194), H6697 [31JY]

Dept. of Justice: investigation of interception of cellular phone conversations between Members of Congress, H1396 [10AP], H1984 [29AP]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: announcement of toll-free telephone number to assist Persian Gulf veterans relative to health care examinations, H931 [12MR]

FCC: designate certain common carriers as eligible for universal service support (S. 1354), H10807-H10809 [13NO]

Hudson, LiPing Chen: subpoena of telephone records by Committee on Government Reform and Oversight (House) relative to campaign contributions investigation, H9610 [28OC]

Marietta, GA: tribute to Lockheed Elementary School, E1618 [1AU]

Political campaigns: require certain disclosures and reports relative to polling by telephone or electronic device (H.R. 2075), E1342 [27JN]

———require certain disclosures and reports relative to polling by telephone or electronic device (H.R. 248), E8 [7JA]

Privacy: protection of Social Security numbers and other personal information (H.R. 1813), H3583 [10JN], H3870 [18JN], E1126 [5JN], E1526 [25JY], E1550 [29JY]

Telecommunications: availability of universal service relative to Native Americans and Alaskan natives (H. Res. 29), E80 [9JA]

———availability of universal service relative to Native Americans and Alaskan natives (H.R. 555), E148 [4FE]

———cable television competition, E1841 [24SE]

———tribute to ClassLink Program, E1618 [1AU]

———universal service support for schools and libraries, H8313 [2OC]

Remarks in Senate

Business and industry: strengthen and expand the procedures for preventing the slamming of interstate telephone service subscribers, S8063 [24JY]

———strengthen and expand the procedures for preventing the slamming of interstate telephone service subscribers (S. 1051), S7867 [22JY]

———strengthen and expand the procedures for preventing the slamming of interstate telephone service subscribers (S. 1137), S8602 [31JY]

———strengthen and expand the procedures for preventing the slamming of interstate telephone service subscribers (S. 1340), S11351 [29OC]

Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act: funding, S8081 [24JY]

Computers: discourage telephone access charges for Internet use (S. Res. 86), S4612 [15MY], S12078 [8NO]

Crime: enhance punishment for telemarketing fraud (S. 489), S2652 [20MR], S2862 [8AP]

———improve investigation and prosecution of individuals involved in cloning cellular telephones (S. 493), S2655 [20MR], S12484-S12487 [10NO]

———require forfeiture of counterfeit access devices (S. 1148), S8827 [4SE]

Dept. of State: capital investment and infrastructure funding, S8034, S8035 [24JY]

FCC: designate certain common carriers as eligible for universal service support (S. 1354), S11546 [31OC], S12568 [13NO]

———requirements for proposed merger of Bell Atlantic and NYNEX (business), S7886 [23JY]

———set minimum reserve price for auctions of any license, permit, or right (S. 663), S3799 [29AP]

———Universal Services Fund implementation, S4082 [7MY], S5147 [23MY]

Older Americans Act: establish additional pension counseling demonstration projects and create a toll-free pension counseling telephone number (S. 948), S6043 [20JN]

Privacy: protection of Social Security numbers and other personal information (S. 600), S3292-S3294 [16AP]

Taxation: treatment of certain income received by cooperative telephone companies (S. 791), S5009 [22MY]

Telecommunications: allocation of revenues from universal service fund to balance Federal budget, S8068, S8073 [24JY], S8172 [28JY], S8214 [29JY], S8335-S8341 [30JY], S8395 [31JY]

———assure competition in markets (S. 954), S6190 [24JN]

———implement rates for universal service to education providers, libraries, and health care servers in rural areas, S2949 [9AP]

———preserve State and local authority to regulate the placement, construction, and modification of certain facilities (S. 1350), S11463 [30OC]

———reform policies regulating competition, S2048-S2053 [10MR], S7284-S7295 [11JY], S7671-S7684 [17JY]

———require an annual report to Congress on telecommunications services (S. 665), S3801 [29AP]

———State regulation of citizens band radio frequency interference with residential electronic or telephone equipment (S. 608), S3352-S3354 [17AP], S5943 [18JN]

———universal service regulations, S11305, S11307 [29OC]

Telecommunications Act: repeal amendments on obscene and harassing use of telecommunications facilities (S. 213), S742-S744 [28JA]

VFW: tribute to Operation Uplink for distribution of free long-distance calling time to hospitalized veterans and overseas troops, S8374 [30JY]

Reports

Allow Bell Operating Cos. Entry Into Long Distance Service, S7679-S7681 [17JY]

Reports filed

Cellular Telephone Protection Act: Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 493), S9636 [18SE]

FCC Designation Certain Common Carriers as Eligible for Universal Service Support: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (Senate) (S. 1354), S12118 [8NO]

Surveys

ClassLink Cellular Phone Service for Parent/Teacher Communications, E1257 [19JN]

Tables

Revenues generated by auctioning off communications frequency spectrum, H2978 [20MY]

Texts of

S. 213, repeal Telecommunications Act amendments on obscene and harassing use of telecommunications facilities, S743 [28JA]

S. 493, Cellular Telephone Protection Act, S2656 [20MR]

S. 493, Wireless Telephone Protection Act, S12486 [10NO]

S. 600, Personal Information Privacy Act, S3293 [16AP]

S. 608, State regulation of citizens band radio frequency interference with residential electronic or telephone equipment, S3354 [17AP]

S. 663, Reserve Price Act, S3800 [29AP]

S. 791, tax treatment of certain income received by cooperative telephone companies, S5010 [22MY]

S. 1051, Interstate Slamming Prevention Act, S7867 [22JY]

S. 1137, Slamming Protection Act, S8603 [31JY]

S. 1148, require forfeiture of counterfeit access devices, S8827 [4SE]

S. 1340, Telephone Consumer Fraud Protection Act, S11352 [29OC]

S. 1350, preserve State and local authority to regulate the placement, construction, and modification of certain telecommunication facilities, S11463 [30OC]

S. 1354, designate certain common carriers as eligible for universal service support, H10807 [13NO]

S. Res. 86, discourage telephone access charges for Internet use, S4611 [15MY]