HR4137: Quick Update
HR4137 has passed House and Senate floor votes and reached the President’s desk. It should pass without problems – great news.
Now, recent buzz on HR4137 involves unrelated language jammed into the bill about file-sharing. CNET writes well on the P2P changes snuck into HR4137. Why does this happen? Clauses like this have major lobbies beyond them and often drive compromises in committee. Powerful legislators in committee can often force controversial language into large, important bills and so avoid an individual vote on their controversial issue. If you recall, something similar happened when Senators hijacked a Port Security bill to legislate online gambling in 2006.
Anyway, the controversy remains moot. Just as before, with the gambling bill, the chatter comes a bit too late for recourse. This is terrific for student loan reform, and just slightly poor for file-sharing college students.
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