From: "Shabbir J. Safdar" Subject: 1994 Voters Guide (Legislative Report Card) Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 00:53:57 -0400 (EDT) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Voters Telecomm Watch 1993-1994 Legislative Report Card Distribute Widely (until November 31, 1994) (posted 10/23/94) vtw@vtw.org Recent Quotes: "I wrote my other Senator, but he's been indicted, so I don't expect much of a response." -A sarcastic but sincere volunteer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [This is a living document; responses to legislator surveys will be posted to comp.org.cpsr.talk, comp.org.eff.talk, and talk.politics.crypto] CONTENTS What's this legislative questionnaire? The year in review Individual legislator awards & recommendations Description of voting records Grades of Representatives & Senators A sample legislative questionnaire for your legislator ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT'S THIS LEGISLATIVE QUESTIONNAIRE? In addition to the report cards we've assembled, we've also provided you with a "litmus test" set of questions. Send these to your incumbent legislator, or their successor, or their challengers and use it to gauge their opinion. Most important, send your responses back to vtw@vtw.org. We'll track the responses and republish them regularly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE YEAR IN REVIEW This year in telecommunications civil liberties was characterized by the battle and strange death of Rep. Maria Cantwell's Cryptography Export bill and the "don't blink or you'll miss the vote" passage of FBI's Wiretap/Digital Telephony bill. The online community was more or less united on their support of the Cantwell bill. The FBI Wiretap bill was loudly opposed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the Voters Telecomm Watch (VTW). The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was brought in by the bill's sponsors to make it more palatable to privacy interests, and subsequently did not enter into any campaigns to oppose it. The DT bill passed in the last minutes of the session. EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow recently stated on the WELL that after much soul-searching, he lobbied Sen. Malcolm Wallop (R-WY) to remove his "hold", one of the last which had been keeping the bill from being voted on in the last moments of the pre-election session. In actuality this probably had little to do with Sen. Wallop releasing his hold, as it was concluded by the leadership earlier that the FBI Wiretap bill was a "drop dead issue" that would pass before the session was allowed to end. Next year promises to be just as interesting: the White House, the NSA and the law enforcement community are re-grouping for another push on their Key Escrow program. The are starting to recover from the embarrassment that ATT researcher Dr. Matt Blaze cased them when he discovered the government's Tessera Key Escrow card could be used to encrypt communications that subsequently *could not* be decrypted by law enforcement. FBI Director Louis Freeh has recently stated that if strong cryptography without Clipper/Key Escrow becomes available, he will push for legislation that bans the use of non-escrowed cryptography. It's not certain that Rep. Maria Cantwell will be re-introducing her cryptography exports bill. Larry West, Cantwell's Press contact recently stated that talks have been started between Vice President Gore's office, industry, and privacy groups. If the outcome of these talks improves the climate for companies to export products with cryptography in them, then she will not re-introduce her legislation. The Voters Telecomm Watch will be monitoring Congress and the relevant Federal agencies closely next year and keeping you informed. To join our list, send mail to listproc@vtw.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INDIVIDUAL LEGISLATOR AWARDS & RECOMMENDATIONS We've handed out some special awards, and made some special recommendations for several legislators this year. Duck of the Year: Sen. Feinstein's (D-CA) actions during the Digital Telephony bill played one tune to her constituents, and another in her voting record. She consistently voted to support the bill. During this time, hundreds of her constituents called asking her oppose it and were told that she was "taking the matter under consideration". She did *not* receive anywhere near the volume of calls asking her to support it. She continued to vote in favor of the bill. Because she ducked the issue so blatantly, we've instituted a special award for her this year, the Rubber Duck. It's an actual rubber duck, suitable for bath use (and yes, it floats) that will be sent to her via US Mail. Voters Telecomm Watch urges you to carefully consider the Senator's positions (and the positions of her challenger) before supporting her with either a campaign contribution or, if you live in California, your vote. Rookies of the Year: Shared by 1st term Representatives Elizabeth Furse (D-OR-1) and Melvin Watt (D-NC-12) for stating their opposition to the Digital Telephony bill to constituents *before* the vote. Voters Telecomm Watch urges you to support these candidates with campaign contributions and, if you live in their district, your vote. Outstanding US Representative: Rep. Maria Cantwell (D-WA-1), for building a coalition of industry and professional groups (and 17 Representatives) to support her Cryptography Exports bill (HR 3627). Although the bill didn't pass this year, the gains made will make the fight for cryptography exports easier in 1995. Voters Telecomm Watch urges you to support Rep. Cantwell with campaign contributions and, if you live in her district, your vote. Someone we don't know what to do with: Sen. Leahy (D-VT) is someone we just don't know what to do with. A long-time foe of the more draconian FBI Digital Telephony legislation, he finally bent this year and sponsored his own, bringing in more privacy provisions than ever included before. Leahy also has a fairly good record on opposing Clipper, though it's not clear from his previous statements the point at which he would find the Administration's Key Escrow program "acceptable". Senator Leahy isn't up for re-election until 1998. Voters Telecomm Watch urges you to watch Sen. Leahy for the next four years and weigh his *entire* record before making up your mind about him. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION OF VOTING RECORDS These ratings are based entirely on votes and bill (co)sponsorships. Key: Cryptography Exports - Description ================================== Rep. Maria Cantwell's cryptography export bill would have liberalized the export process for cryptographic technology. This would have a beneficial effect on business as well as privacy for the everyday person, like you and me. You can learn more about how the bill progressed (and died) by checking out the VTW gopher item at gopher.panix.com: "Rep. Maria Cantwell's 1993/1994 Crypto Export effort" Voted/Events monitored: Bill sponsorship and co-sponsorships House Rules Committee marks HR3937 "open"; allowing amendments (7/11/94) Gutted by the House Select Committee on Intelligence (6/14/94) CE+++: sponsored/authored/introduced legislation supporting cryptography exports (up 2 1/2 letter grades) CE++: cosponsored cryptography exports legislation (up 1 1/2 letter grade) CE+: voted supportively on cryptography export legislation (does not necessarily mean legislator supported the legislation) (up 1 letter grade) CE-: voted against crypto export legislation (down 1 letter grade) Digital Telephony ==================== The Digital Telephony bills (HR 4922 and SB 2375), sponsored by Sen. Patrick Leahy and Rep. Don Edwards, caused the most controversy in the online community this year. Receiving virtually no public attention outside the Internet community, online organization split themselves on the bills, with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) working with the bills' sponsors to hack in privacy protections. The ramifications of this decision are still being felt on Usenet, as many people realize that the EFF cannot be all things to all people. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) chose instead to oppose the bill and worked with the Voters Telecomm Watch (VTW) to generate grass-roots support against the bill. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) also opposed the bill. Votes/Events tracked: Senate Judiciary Committee vote on SB 2375 (9/28/94) Senators' "holds" on the bill DT++: voted against the Digital Telephony legislation (up 2 letter grades) DT+: placed a hold on the bill (even if for a short time) (up 1/2 letter grade) DT-: voted in favor of the Digital Telephony legislation (down 1 letter grade) '**' Items ========== A number of legislators acted in some noteworthy manner this session (though not always honorable). Although we decided not to score these with points, we went ahead and used a '**' to note the action. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GRADES OF REPRESENTATIVES & SENATORS All legislators were given a score of 'C' by default. Since nearly the entire House voted for the Digital Telephony bill, all Reps start out with a D. All Senators start out with a D as well, since having given "unanimous consent", they all virtually voted for the Digital Telephony bill as well. If your legislator doesn't appear on the list below, assume they received a 'D'. Representatives Dist ST Name, Address, and Party Phone Fax ==== == ======================== ============== ============== 10 NC Ballenger, Thomas C. (R) 1-202-225-2576 1-202-225-0316 Grade: B- Co-sponsored HR 3627, the cryptography exports bill (+1 1/2) 24 CA Beilenson, Anthony (D) 1-202-225-5911 Grade: C Voted to allow amendments to repair gutted cryptography exports bill on 7/11/94 (+1) 1 NE Bereuter, Douglas (R) 1-202-225-4806 1-202-226-1148 Grade: F Voted to gut cryptography exports bill on 6/15/94 (-1) 1 NV Bilbray, James H. (D) 1-202-225-5965 1-202-225-8808 Grade: F Voted to gut cryptography exports bill on 6/15/94 (-1) 1 WA Cantwell, Maria (D) 1-202-225-6311 1-202-225-2286 ** Outstanding US Representative for 1993/1994 ** Grade: A- Sponsored HR 3627, the cryptography exports bill (+2 1/2) 16 TX Coleman, Ronald D. (D) 1-202-225-4831 None Grade: F Voted to gut cryptography exports bill on 6/15/94 (-1) 19 TX Combest, Larry (R) 1-202-225-4005 1-202-225-9615 Grade: F Voted to gut cryptography exports bill on 6/15/94 (-1) 5 AL Cramer Jr, Robert E. (D) 1-202-225-4801 1-202-225-4392 Grade: F Voted to gut cryptography exports bill on 6/15/94 (-1) 6 WA Dicks, Norman D. (D) 1-202-225-5916 1-202-226-1176 Grade: F Voted to gut cryptography exports bill on 6/15/94 (-1) 32 CA Dixon, Julian C. (D) 1-202-225-7084 1-202-225-4091 Grade: F Voted to gut cryptography exports bill on 6/15/94 (-1) 4 CA Doolittle, John T. (R) 1-202-225-2511 1-202-225-5444 Grade: A Voted against the Digital Telephony bill - HR 4922 (+2) 46 CA Dornan, Robert K. (R) 1-202-225-2965 1-202-225-3694 Grade: F Voted to gut cryptography exports bill on 6/15/94 (-1) 16 CA Edwards, Donald (D) 1-202-225-3072 1-202-225-9460 Grade: B- Co-sponsored HR 3627, the cryptography exports bill (+1 1/2) ** Sponsored the 1994 Digital Telephony bill - HR 4922 ** 14 CA Eshoo, Anna G. (D) 1-202-225-8104 1-202-225-8890 Grade: B- Co-sponsored HR 3627, the cryptography exports bill (+1 1/2) 19 OH Fingerhut, Eric D. (D) 1-202-225-5731 1-202-225-9114 Grade: B- Co-sponsored HR 3627, the cryptography exports bill (+1 1/2) 4 MA Frank, Barney (D) 1-202-225-5931 1-202-225-0182 Grade: B- Co-sponsored HR 3627, the cryptography exports bill (+1 1/2) 1 OR Furse, Elizabeth (D) 1-202-225-0855 na ** Co-winner of the VTW Rookie of the Year award ** Grade: A Voted against the Digital Telephony bill - HR 4922 (+2) 17 PA Gekas, George W. (R) 1-202-225-4315 1-202-225-8440 Grade: F Voted to gut cryptography exports bill on 6/15/94 (-1) 4 KS Glickman, Daniel (D) 1-202-225-6216 1-202-225-5398 Grade: F Voted to gut cryptography exports bill on 6/15/94 (-1) 1 UT Hansen, James V. (R) 1-202-225-0453 1-202-225-5857 Grade: F Voted to gut cryptography exports bill on 6/15/94 (-1) 6 IL Hyde, Henry J. (R) 1-202-225-4561 1-202-226-1240 Grade: D ** Co-sponsored the 1994 Digital Telephony bill - HR 4922 ** 4 WA Inslee, Jay (D) 1-202-225-5816 1-202-226-1137 Grade: B- Co-sponsored HR 3627, the cryptography exports bill (+1 1/2) 19 FL Johnston II, Harry (D) 1-202-225-3001 1-202-225-8791 Grade: B- Co-sponsored HR 3627, the cryptography exports bill (+1 1/2) 9 WA Kreidler, Mike (D) 1-202-225-8901 1-202-226-2361 Grade: B- Co-sponsored HR 3627, the cryptography exports bill (+1 1/2) 14 TX Laughlin, Gregory H. (D) 1-202-225-2831 1-202-225-1108 Grade: F Voted to gut cryptography exports bill on 6/15/94 (-1) 40 CA Lewis, Jerry (R) 1-202-225-5861 1-202-225-6498 Grade: F Voted to gut cryptography exports bill on 6/15/94 (-1) 16 IL Manzullo, Donald (R) 1-202-225-5676 1-202-225-5284 Grade: B- Co-sponsored HR 3627, the cryptography exports bill (+1 1/2) 8 IN McCloskey, Frank (D) 1-202-225-4636 1-202-225-4688 Grade: B- Co-sponsored HR 3627, the cryptography exports bill (+1 1/2) 7 WA McDermott, James A. (D) 1-202-225-3106 1-202-225-9212 Grade: B- Co-sponsored HR 3627, the cryptography exports bill (+1 1/2) 3 UT Orton, William H. (D) 1-202-225-7751 1-202-226-1223 Grade: B- Co-sponsored HR 3627, the cryptography exports bill (+1 1/2) 8 CA Pelosi, Nancy (D) 1-202-225-4965 1-202-225-8259 Grade: F Voted to gut cryptography exports bill on 6/15/94 (-1) 1 TN Quillen, James H. (R) 1-202-225-6356 Grade: C Voted to allow amendments to repair gutted cryptography exports bill on 7/11/94 (+1) 2 RI Reed, John F. (D) 1-202-225-2735 1-202-225-9580 Grade: F Voted to gut cryptography exports bill on 6/15/94 (-1) 3 NM Richardson, William (D) 1-202-225-6190 1-202-225-1950 Grade: F Voted to gut cryptography exports bill on 6/15/94 (-1) 2 UT Shepherd, Karen (D) 1-202-225-3011 1-202-226-0354 Grade: B- Co-sponsored HR 3627, the cryptography exports bill (+1 1/2) 2 CO Skaggs, David E. (D) 1-202-225-2161 1-202-225-9127 Grade: F Voted to gut cryptography exports bill on 6/15/94 (-1) 28 NY Slaughter, Louise M. (D) 1-202-225-3615 Grade: C Voted to allow amendments to repair gutted cryptography exports bill on 7/11/94 (+1) 22 NY Solomon, Gerald B. (R) 1-202-225-5614 Grade: C Voted to allow amendments to repair gutted cryptography exports bill on 7/11/94 (+1) 2 WA Swift, Al (D) 1-202-225-2605 1-202-225-2608 Grade: B- Co-sponsored HR 3627, the cryptography exports bill (+1 1/2) 9 NJ Torricelli, Robert (D) 1-202-224-5061 1-202-225-0843 Grade: F Voted to gut cryptography exports bill on 6/15/94 (-1) ** Note that this legislator was asked repeatedly over the course of two months by his constituents to take a position on the Digital Telephony issue and he refused. ** 3 WA Unsoeld, Jolene (D) 1-202-225-3536 1-202-225-9095 Grade: B- Co-sponsored HR 3627, the cryptography exports bill (+1 1/2) 12 NC Watt, Melvin (D) 1-202-225-1510 1-202-225-1512 ** Co-winner of the VTW Rookie of the Year award ** Grade: A Voted against the Digital Telephony bill - HR 4922 (+2) 3 OR Wyden, Ronald (D) 1-202-225-4811 1-202-225-8941 Grade: B- Co-sponsored HR 3627, the cryptography exports bill (+1 1/2) 10 FL Young, C. W. (R) 1-202-225-5961 1-202-225-9764 Grade: F Voted to gut cryptography exports bill on 6/15/94 (-1) Senators p st name phone fax = == ======================== ============== ============== D DE Biden Jr., Joseph R. 1-202-224-5042 na Grade: F Voted in favor of the DT bill leaving the Judiciary committee. (-1) ** Co-sponsored the FBI Wiretap/Digital Telephony bill - SB 2375 ** R CO Brown, Henry 1-202-224-5941 na Grade: D- Placed a hold on the Digital Telephony bill - SB 2375 (+1/2) Voted in favor of the DT bill leaving the Judiciary committee. (-1) R ME Cohen, William S. 1-202-224-2523 1-202-224-2693 Grade: F Voted in favor of the DT bill leaving the Judiciary committee. (-1) D AZ DeConcini, Dennis 1-202-224-4521 1-202-224-2302 Grade: F Voted in favor of the DT bill leaving the Judiciary committee. (-1) D CA Feinstein, Diane 1-202-224-3841 1-202-228-3954 Grade: F ** Winner of the 1993/4 'Duck of the Year' Award for ducking constituents & the Digital Telephony issue ** Voted in favor of the DT bill leaving the Judiciary committee. (-1) R WA Gorton, Slade 1-202-224-3441 1-202-224-9393 Grade: C- Placed a hold on the Digital Telephony bill - SB 2375 (+1/2) R IA Grassley, Charles E. 1-202-224-3744 na Grade: F Voted in favor of the DT bill leaving the Judiciary committee. (-1) R UT Hatch, Orrin G. 1-202-224-5251 1-202-224-6331 Grade: F Voted in favor of the DT bill leaving the Judiciary committee. (-1) D AL Heflin, Howell T. 1-202-224-4124 1-202-224-3149 Grade: F Voted in favor of the DT bill leaving the Judiciary committee. (-1) D MA Kennedy, Edward M. 1-202-224-4543 1-202-224-2417 Grade: F Voted in favor of the DT bill leaving the Judiciary committee. (-1) D WI Kohl, Herbert H. 1-202-224-5653 na Grade: F Voted in favor of the DT bill leaving the Judiciary committee. (-1) D VT Leahy, Patrick J. 1-202-224-4242 na Grade: F ** Sponsored the 1994 Digital Telephony bill ** ** Senator Leahy has an admirable record of supporting civil liberties issues in telecommunications. We believe this year's activities are simply an aberration from his previously exemplary record. Some would suggest this is because our poll doesn't take into account accepting an smaller evil (the 1994 DT bill) to prevent a larger evil (the 1992 DT bill). ** Voted in favor of the DT bill leaving the Judiciary committee. (-1) D OH Metzenbaum, Howard 1-202-224-2315 1-202-224-6519 Grade: D- Placed a hold on the Digital Telephony bill - SB 2375 (+1/2) Voted in favor of the DT bill leaving the Judiciary committee. (-1) D IL Moseley-Braun, Carol 1-202-224-2854 na Grade: F Voted in favor of the DT bill leaving the Judiciary committee. (-1) R SD Pressler, Larry 1-202-224-5842 1-202-224-1630 Grade: F Voted in favor of the DT bill leaving the Judiciary committee. (-1) D IL Simon, Paul 1-202-224-2152 1-202-224-0868 Grade: F Voted in favor of the DT bill leaving the Judiciary committee. (-1) R WY Simpson, Alan K. 1-202-224-3424 1-202-224-1315 Grade: F Voted in favor of the DT bill leaving the Judiciary committee. (-1) R PA Specter, Arlen 1-202-224-4254 1-202-224-1893 Grade: F Voted in favor of the DT bill leaving the Judiciary committee. (-1) R SC Thurmond, Strom 1-202-224-5972 1-202-224-1300 Grade: F Voted in favor of the DT bill leaving the Judiciary committee. (-1) R WY Wallop, Malcolm 1-202-224-6441 1-202-224-3230 Grade: C- Placed a hold on the Digital Telephony bill - SB 2375 (+1/2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QUESTIONNAIRE FOR LEGISLATORS AND THEIR CHALLENGERS [Mail, call, or fax these questions to your legislator and they're challengers, if up for re-election. This will help us map out the current opinions of Congress. Mail their responses to vtw@vtw.org. Note that if you're calling a legislator's staff member, you may have to abbreviate the introductions to each question.] 1. The US Gov't. initiated control over the export of cryptography years ago, before cryptographic technology became widely available outside the United States. Now that it is available abroad, these export controls hamper the US software industry's ability to compete globally. This limited market results in fewer products with strong privacy protections available domestically. Last year, Rep. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) introduced a bill that would have corrected these export controls to more accurately reflect the availability of products abroad. Did you support Rep. Cantwell's bill (HR 3627)? Do you support amending the cryptography export restrictions to better reflect the pervasive nature of this technology abroad and freeing American business from unrealistic regulation? 2. The Clipper Chip and the Tessera Card are part of the White House's new initiative called the EES (Escrowed Encryption Standard - Federal Information Processing Standard 185). This standard mandates law enforcement access to the communications of anyone using EES-based equipment. These implementations were developed in secret with little public input but extensive public funds. The meager opportunity for public input resulted in 320 submitted comments nearly all of them opposed to the adoption of the standard. NIST chose to adopt the standard anyway. All of the individuals who submitted comments opposing the standard expressed concern over the security, cost, and privacy exposures of the EES. Recently Dr. Matt Blaze, a scientist from Bell Labs, discovered a significant flaw in the Tessera Card that allows an individual to use the Tessera Card to encrypt information that law enforcement could not decode. In the face of all of this failure, the White House, NIST and the NSA continue to pour funds into the EES project attempting to force a flawed and poorly defined standard onto a public and an industry that does not want it. Do you agree that Congress should act to withhold funds on the EES (Escrowed Encryption Standard) and until the technical, privacy, and financial objections to the standard have been answered? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Shabbir J. Safdar" Subject: Press release for VTW Voters Guide Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 00:55:27 -0400 (EDT) [This is the last posting about the Voters Guide. Further postings will go to the appropriate newsgroups. -Shabbir] October 24, 1994 PRIVACY GROUP RELEASES LEGISLATIVE REPORT CARD FOR 1994 CONGRESS For Immediate Release NEW YORK - The Voters Telecomm Watch (VTW) an organization dedicated to monitoring civil liberties in telecommunications, has just announced its 1993/1994 legislative report cards -- and the news isn't good. Almost the entire Congress received a grade of 'D' for failing to recognize several threats to American privacy that presented themselves to the legislature this year, and one opportunity. "A few legislators distinguished themselves, recognizing the bills that threatened privacy this year, but on the whole, Congress was asleep at the wheel," stated Alexis Rosen, VTW board member. This year VTW monitored two pieces of legislation, Rep. Maria Cantwell's (D-WA) cryptographic exports bill (HR 3627) and the FBI's Wiretap/Digital Telephony bill (S.2375/HR.4922). Representative Cantwell received VTW's Legislator of the Year Award for her attempts to bring laws governing the export of encryption more in line with the current state and availability of that technology overseas. Rep. Cantwell's export bill would have made practical the incorporation of encryption into systems and application programs. Currently, such technology is not included because of government regulations restricting the export of such software. Embedded encryption is essential to expand business use of electronic mail and other transmission of sensitive data, such as credit card information. It is therefore necessary for on-line shopping and banking. Software manufacturing currently one of America's strongest exporting industries is threatened by foreign competition not subject to the same constraints. Representatives Melvin Watt (D-NC) and Elizabeth Furse (D-OR), both first-term legislators, received VTW's Rookie of the Year awards for their stated opposition to the Digital Wiretap bill, on privacy and fiscal grounds. Most Congressional actions this year on telecommunications and privacy issues have been on voice votes, making it difficult to score individual performance. A network of hundreds of VTW volunteers have called and written their own legislators to ascertain their positions. "Our legislators really don't seem to want to be held accountable," stated volunteer Josh Hendrix. "The breakfast food of the day is still waffles at Sen. Feinstein's office," stated a California volunteer, expressing his frustration after literally hundreds of faxes and called had been received by Senator Feinstein without a change in her position. Senator Feinstein received a special award this year from VTW -- the 'Duck of the Year'. "She received hundreds of constituent calls and faxes asking her to oppose the FBI Wiretap bill," said VTW Press contact Steven Cherry, "and she still voted for the bill, despite the wishes of the very people she was elected to represent. We've purchased a rubber duck for her, and it will arrive in the mail soon." Voters Telecommunications Watch is hoping Rep. Cantwell's bill will be reintroduced in the 104th Congress. Perhaps the biggest issue of the next session will be the continued legality of strong private encryption without key escrow. FBI Director Louis Freeh has been quoted as saying that, according to cyberjournalist Brock Meeks, "if the Administration's Escrowed Encryption System, otherwise known as the Clipper Chip, failed to gain acceptance, giving way to private encryption technologies, he would have no choice but to press Congress to pass legislation that provided law enforcement access to all encrypted communications." The Voters Telecomm Watch legislative report card can be found on the Internet in their gopher at gopher.panix.com. You can also send them email requesting a copy (or information about the organization) at vtw@vtw.org. Finally, you can request a copy until November 15th via US Mail by leaving a message in their voice mail at (718) 596-2851. You must leave your entire address (including zip code). VTW's efforts to garner grass-roots opposition to the FBI Wiretap/Digital Telephony bill were reported upon by such publications as the New York Times and Wired magazine. It's legislative report card has also been distributed onto the Internet, where it will quickly reach hundreds of thousands of readers within the first week of distribution. Concerned citizens can reach Voters Telecommunications Watch by writing to vtw@vtw.org or checking their gopher at gopher.panix.com. -- Steven Cherry Media contact Voters Telecommunications Watch (718) 596-2851 gopher -p 1/vtw gopher.panix.com