104th Congress / Bills / S 652

Title

An original bill to provide for a pro-competitive, de-regulatory national policy framework designed to accelerate rapidly private sector deployment of advanced telecommunications and information technologies and services to all Americans by opening all telecommunications markets to competition, and for other purposes.

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Votes on this bill

Date	Chamber	Result	Vote
2/1/96	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 8: On the Conference Report S.652 Conference Report; Telecommunications Act of 1996
2/1/96	House	Passed	Session 2, roll call 25: On Agreeing to the Conference Report Telecommunications Reform Act
6/15/95	Senate	Passed	Session 1, roll call 268: On Passage of the Bill passage s. 652, as amended; Telecommunications Act of 1996
6/15/95	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 267: On the Amendment Dole amendment No. 1341; To strike the volume discounts provisions.
6/15/95	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 266: On the Motion to Table Motion to table Lieberman amendment No. 1298; To improve the provisions relating to cable rate reform.
6/15/95	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 265: On the Motion to Table Motion to Table Simon Amendment No. 1283 as modified; To revise the authority relating to Federal Communications Commission rules on radio ownership.
6/15/95	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 264: On the Amendment mccain amdt no. 1285; To means test the eligiblity of the community users in the Act.
6/14/95	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 263: On the Amendment exon amdt no. 1362; To provide protections against harassment, obscenity and indecency to minors by means of telecommunications devices.
6/14/95	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 262: On the Motion to Table motion to table boxer amdt no 1340, as modified; To preserve the basic tier of cable services.
6/14/95	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 261: On the Motion to Table motion to table kerrey amdt no. 1307; To require more than "an" interconnection agreement prior to long distance entry by a Bell Operating Company.
6/14/95	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 260: On the Motion to Table Motion to Table Kerrey Amendment No.1344; To provide for the representation of consumers on the Federal-State Board on universal service.
6/14/95	Senate	Rejected	Session 1, roll call 258: On the Amendment feinstein amdt no 1270; To strike the authority of the Federal Communications Commission to preempt State or local regulations that establish barriers to entry for interstate or intrastate telecommunications services.
6/13/95	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 257: On the Amendment Simon Amendment No.1349; To express the Sense of the Senate regarding limiting the amount of broadcasting of violent and aggressive programming.
6/13/95	Senate	Failed	Session 1, roll call 256: On the Motion to Table Motion to Table Conrad Amendment No. 1275; To provide means of limiting the exposure of children to violent programming on television, and for other purposes.
6/13/95	Senate	Rejected	Session 1, roll call 255: On the Amendment Dorgan amdt. no. 1278 upon reconsideration; To provide for Federal Communications Commission review of television broadcast ownership restrictions.
6/13/95	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 253: On the Amendment Dorgan Amendment No.1278 as Modified; To provide for Federal Communications Commission review of television broadcast ownership restrictions.
6/13/95	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 252: On the Motion to Table Motion to Table Bumpers Amendment No. 1348; To protect consumers of electric utility holding companies engaged in the provision of telecommunications services, and for other purposes.
6/13/95	Senate	Rejected	Session 1, roll call 251: On the Amendment McCain Amendment No. 1276; To require a voucher system to provide for payment of universal service.
6/13/95	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 250: On the Motion to Table Motion to table thurmond amendment No. 1265, as modified; To provide for the review by the Attorney General of the United States of the entry of the Bell operating companies into interexchange telecommunications and manufacturing markets.
6/12/95	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 249: On the Amendment feinstein amendment No. 1269; To provide for the full scrambling on multichannel video services of sexually explicit adult programming.
6/9/95	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 248: On the Amendment dole amdt no. 1255, as modified; To provide additional deregulation of telecommunications services.
6/9/95	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 247: On the Amendment Santorum amdt. no. 1267; To permit the Bell operating companies to provide interLATA commercial mobile services.
6/8/95	Senate	Rejected	Session 1, roll call 245: On the Amendment Cohen amdt. no. 1263; To provide for the competitive availability of addressable converter boxes.
6/8/95	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 244: On the Motion to Table Motion to table Mccain amst. no. 1262; To strike the community users provisions in the Act.
6/8/95	Senate	Agreed to	Session 1, roll call 243: On the Motion to Table Motion to table Mccain amdt. no. 1261; To prevent excessive Federal Communications Commission regulatory activities.