'Microsoft 811' and Holt: "It's no longer my bill"

Holt: "No, it was software -- the software industry."

There is something seriously wrong when a U.S. Congressman can say that an election reform bill he introduced was significantly changed through the lobbying effort of Microsoft and the software industry....that their voices were heard!

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Since when was the rule passed in Congress that whoever lobbies hardest gets to determine the content of U.S. legislation?

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When a U.S. Congressman can agree that “the software industry won!” — as Mr. Holt admitted at the July meeting, we have a critical problem that threatens the foundation of our Democracy.

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This bill is no longer the Holt bill...he said so himself.

 

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