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

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Mon Oct 21 2002 - 19:02:39 PDT

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        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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