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. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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