SLINGING CYBER-MUD
The challenger in Nebraska's second district, James Martin Davis,
has made his contribution to cleaning up the Net by pointing out
that gay pornography can be found just five clicks away from the
official home page of the incumbent, Republican Jon Christensen.
Roll Call reported that Davis' campaign mapped out the five links
a Net surfer need follow to find their way from Rep. Christensen's
home page to gay "acts in progress". Christensen's staff
correctly pointed out that Davis' charges demonstrate that on the
Web "you're five clicks away from anything". But Christensen has
since brought his page down anyway, and his campaign returned the
favor by mapping out a path from Davis' home page to pornography.
Wait until somebody realizes that just five blocks from the
Capitol Building is a store that sells liquor and Playboy.
They'll tear up the streets.
James Martin Davis - NE-2 - Democrat
Representative Jon Christensen (R-NE2) - currently inaccessible
THE FREEZE IS ON IN THE SENATE
September 6th, is sixty days from election day, and so in
accordance with Senate rules those Senators facing re-election in
November are restricted from posting any further information on
the Senate's Internet servers. Their home pages will remain in
place, but they are "frozen", no new material can be added until
after election day. Previously restrictions on use of Internet
services prior to a general election affected all Senators,
including those not themselves facing an election. But in late
July the Senate Rules Committee adoped new rules governing the use
of Senate Internet services and limited the restriction to only
the Senators who will be facing voters that year. The imending
freeze led a number of members of the class of '96 to spruce up
their home pages before the freeze began, and one Senator (Pete
Domenici - NM) who faces this election year made his debut on the
web just in time to be frozen.
Senate Internet Services Usage and Policies
Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) - last Senator to beat the freeze to the web
GRAMM GOES OFFLINE
Domenici's Senate debut leaves just one member of the class of '96
who is seeking to return to the Senate missing from the web. More
than a year ago, Republican Presidential hopeful Phil Gramm's
campaign was arguing with Lamar Alexander's over which was the
first to bring their candidate to the Web. Gramm has seemingly
soured on the Net as a means for reaching constituents or voters.
He is the only incumbent Senator seeking re-election that does not
have a home page for his Senate office. And neither has Gramm's
Senate campaign turned up online (not that I could find anyway).
It seems a shame, he's already got the domain name registered!
The Senate's generic Gramm home page
Gramm for President -access currently forbidden
Victor Morales for Senate - Sen. Gramm's challenger
HEARING THE HILL ON THE NET
No, it's not the audio edition of my book. Just a number of new
options for listening to Congressional proceedings via the
Internet. Recently the Center for Democracy and Technology
arranged for two Senate hearings related to cryptography to be
cybercast live on the Internet. The C-SPAN home page serves up
live proceedings of the House and Senate when they're in session
(hurry, times running out for the 104th). And a new service
called FedNet promises live audio broadcasts from Congress
including "gavel-to-gavel Floor proceedings and debates, a wide
array of congressional hearings, and a flurry of press
conferences". The FedNet site is scheduled to launch this month.
Center for Democracy & Technology
That's all for now!
Regards,
Chris
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