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COPYRIGHT 2001 Crain Communications, Inc.
WASHINGTON--The new Democratic-controlled Senate is expected to change the tone of telecom policy debate in Congress, but is unlikely to immediately have a major legislative impact. That may well change in time, however.
With Democrats assuming control of the Senate for the first time since 1994, a dramatic turn of events made possible by Vermont Sen. James Jeffords defection from the GOP last week, high-tech policy will at once be subject to greater government oversight and greater government support.
The truth is, high-tech policy has not been a top priority for the Bush administration to date. Tax cuts, education and energy trump everything. And the little high-tech declarations that have come from the White House--like support for a permanent research and development tax credit--are appendages of Bush's broader policy agenda. Other than a broadband Internet bill supported by Baby Bells, which likely would...
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