roundtable: Re: Update on NTIA Funding 9-19

roundtable: Re: Update on NTIA Funding 9/19

Re: Update on NTIA Funding 9/19

Rick Crawford (crawford@cs.ucdavis.edu)
Wed, 20 Sep 1995 14:38:27 -0700 

Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 14:38:27 -0700
From: crawford@cs.ucdavis.edu (Rick Crawford)
Message-Id: <9509202138.AA16373@ivy.cs.ucdavis.edu>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: Update on NTIA Funding 9/19


David Gardner reports:
> 
> Today, during consideration of legislation to dismantle the Commerce
> Department,  the House Commerce Committee adopted an amendment
> offered by Representative Markey to keep NTIA's domestic, international,
> spectrum and research functions together in a newly created United
> States Trade Administration.    Until the Markey amendment was adopted,
> the Committee had proposed elimination of NTIA and the transfer of its
> spectrum functions to the U.S. Treasury, and its international functions 
> to a new Trade Administration.  

I can't say I consider this any improvement -- it's the difference
between a quick death for public interest issues, and a slow, lingering 
one.  Making NTIA's domestic functions subservient to international 
Trade is a sellout of the public interest to transnational corporations
and their "competitiveness" trap -- pitting citizens and nations against 
each other, in a Race to the Bottom for a few crumbs of corporate 
largesse.

-rick


Rick Crawford
<crawford@cs.ucdavis.edu>

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