On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:06:51 +0000, Rand Simberg wrote:

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:59:56 GMT, in a place far, far away, Craig Fink
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way
as to indicate that:

Who added the change to the bill slamming the door shut after only eight
years?

It was a compromise to get the bill through. There's always the
potential to fix that between now and then with new legislation (likely
to occur anyway as the industry continues to evolve).

Yes, I understand that, but was wondering who or what group pushed
for this rather bad change to an otherwise good bill?

Craig Fink