FC: Republicans best Democrats on "tech-friendly" votes

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-962750.html

   Study: Republicans dominate tech votes
   By Declan McCullagh
   October 21, 2002, 9:42 AM PT

   Republican politicians trounced their Democratic rivals in a roundup
   released on Monday of congressional votes that were favorable to the
   technology industry.

   The scorecard, compiled by the Information Technology Industry Council
   (ITIC) and published in time for next month's elections, graded each
   member of Congress on their votes over the last two years on computer
   security, Internet taxes and free trade. [...]

   The trade association released only a list of how individual
   politicians voted, but an analysis performed by CNET News.com shows
   that House Republicans voted in accordance with the tech industry's
   views 89 percent of the time, compared with just 43 percent of the
   time for Democrats.

   In the Senate, the partisan difference was not as prominent, but the
   same pattern emerged. [...]





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