JOURNAL OF THE

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T109.13 AUGUST 4

Barr

Barrett (NE)

Bartlett

Barton

Bass

Bevill

Bilbray

Bilirakis

Bliley

Blute

Boehlert

Boehner

Bonilla

Bonior

Boucher

Brewster

Browder

Brown (FL)

Brown (OH)

Brownback

Bryant (TN)

Bunning

Burr

Burton

Buyer

Callahan

Calvert

Camp

Castle

Chambliss

Chenoweth

Christensen

Chrysler

Clay

Clayton

Clement

Clinger

Coble

Coburn

Collins (GA)

Combest

Condit

Cox

Cramer

Crane

Crapo

Cubin

Davis

de la Garza

Deal

DeLay

Deutsch

Diaz-Balart

Dickey

Dicks

Dingell

Dooley

Doolittle

Dornan

Doyle

Dreier

Duncan

Dunn

Ehlers

Ehrlich

Emerson

Engel

English

Ensign

Eshoo

Everett

Ewing

Fattah

Fields (LA)

Fields (TX)

Flanagan

Foley

Forbes

Fowler

Fox

Frank (MA)

Franks (CT)

Franks (NJ)

Frelinghuysen

Frisa

Funderburk

Gallegly

Ganske

Geren

Gilchrest

Gillmor

Gilman

Goodlatte

Goodling

Gordon

Graham

Greenwood

Gunderson

Gutknecht

Hall (TX)

Hamilton

Hancock

Hansen

Harman

Hastert

Hastings (FL)

Hastings (WA)

Hayes

Hayworth

Hefley

Hefner

Herger

Hilleary

Hilliard

Hoekstra

Hoke

Horn

Houghton

Hunter

Inglis

Istook

Jefferson

Johnson (CT)

Johnson, Sam

Jones

Kelly

Kennedy (MA)

Kennedy (RI)

Kennelly

Kim

King

Kingston

Klug

Kolbe

LaHood

Largent

Latham

Laughlin

Lazio

Lewis (CA)

Lewis (GA)

Lightfoot

Lincoln

Linder

Livingston

LoBiondo

Longley

Lowey

Lucas

Maloney

Manton

Manzullo

Markey

Martini

Mascara

McCrery

McDade

McInnis

McIntosh

McKeon

McKinney

McNulty

Meehan

Meek

Menendez

Metcalf

Mica

Miller (FL)

Minge

Molinari

Mollohan

Montgomery

Moorhead

Moran

Morella

Murtha

Myrick

Neal

Nethercutt

Ney

Nussle

Oxley

Packard

Pallone

Parker

Paxon

Payne (VA)

Pelosi

Peterson (FL)

Peterson (MN)

Petri

Pickett

Pombo

Porter

Portman

Pryce

Quinn

Radanovich

Rahall

Regula

Riggs

Roberts

Roemer

Rohrabacher

Ros-Lehtinen

Roth

Roukema

Royce

Salmon

Sanford

Saxton

Schaefer

Seastrand

Shadegg

Shaw

Shays

Shuster

Sisisky

Skaggs

Skeen

Smith (NJ)

Smith (TX)

Smith (WA)

Solomon

Souder

Spence

Stearns

Stockman

Stump

Talent

Tanner

Tate

Tauzin

Taylor (MS)

Taylor (NC)

Tejeda

Thompson

Thornberry

Tiahrt

Torkildsen

Towns

Upton

Visclosky

Vucanovich

Waldholtz

Walker

Walsh

Wamp

Ward

Watts (OK)

Weldon (FL)

Weldon (PA)

Weller

White

Wicker

Wilson

Wise

Wolf

Wynn

Young (FL)

Zeliff

Zimmer

NOT VOTING—12

Andrews

Bateman

Bishop

Hutchinson

McHugh

Moakley

Ortiz

Reynolds

Scarborough

Thurman

Williams

Young (AK)

So the amendment as modified, was

not agreed to.

T109.13 RECORDED VOTE

A recorded vote by electronic device

was ordered in the Committee of the

Whole on the following amendment

submitted by Mr. COX:

Page 78, before line 18, insert the following

new section (and redesignate the succeeding

sections and conform the table of contents

accordingly):

SEC. 104. ONLINE FAMILY EMPOWERMENT.

Title II of the Communications Act of 1934

(47 U.S.C. 201 et seq.) is amended by adding

at the end the following new section:

‘‘SEC. PROTECTION FOR PRIVATE BLOCKING AND

SCREENING OF OFFENSIVE MATERIAL; FCC REGULATION OF COMPUTER SERVICES PROHIBITED.

‘‘(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following:

‘‘(1) The rapidly developing array of Internet and other interactive computer services

available to individual Americans represent

an extraordinary advance in the availability

of educational and informational resources

to our citizens.

‘‘(2) These services offer users a great degree of control over the information that

they receive, as well as the potential for

even greater control in the future as technology develops.

‘‘(3) The Internet and other interactive

computer services offer a forum for a true diversity of political discourse, unique opportunities for cultural development, and myriad avenues for intellectual activity.

‘‘(4) The Internet and other interactive

computer services have flourished, to the

benefit of all Americans, with a minimum of

government regulation.

‘‘(5) Increasingly Americans are relying on

interactive media for a variety of political,

educational, cultural, and entertainment

services.

‘‘(b) POLICY.—It is the policy of the United

States to—

‘‘(1) promote the continued development of

the Internet and other interactive computer

services and other interactive media;

‘‘(2) preserve the vibrant and competitive

free market that presently exists for the

Internet and other interactive computer

services, unfettered by State or Federal regulation;

‘‘(3) encourage the development of technologies which maximize user control over

the information received by individuals,

families, and schools who use the Internet

and other interactive computer services;

‘‘(4) remove disincentives for the development and utilization of blocking and filtering technologies that empower parents to

restrict their children’s access to objectionable or inappropriate online material; and

‘‘(5) ensure vigorous enforcement of criminal laws to deter and punish trafficking in

obscenity, stalking, and harassment by

means of computer.

‘‘(c) PROTECTION FOR ‘GOOD SAMARITAN’

BLOCKING AND SCREENING OF OFFENSIVE MATERIAL.—No provider or user of interactive

computer services shall be treated as the

publisher or speaker of any information provided by an information content provider. No

provider or user of interactive computer

services shall be held liable on account of—

‘‘(1) any action voluntarily taken in good

faith to restrict access to material that the

provider or user considers to be obscene,

lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent,

harassing, or otherwise objectionable,

whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or

‘‘(2) any action taken to make available to

information content providers or others the

technical means to restrict access to material described in paragraph (1).

‘‘(d) FCC REGULATION OF THE INTERNET AND

OTHER INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SERVICES PROHIBITED.—Nothing in this Act shall be construed to grant any jurisdiction or authority

to the Commission with respect to content

or any other regulation of the Internet or

other interactive computer services.

‘‘(e) EFFECT ON OTHER LAWS.—

‘‘(1) NO EFFECT ON CRIMINAL LAW.—Nothing

in this section shall be construed to impair

the enforcement of section 223 of this Act,

chapter 71 (relating to obscenity) or 110 (relating to sexual exploitation of children) of

title 18, United States Code, or any other

Federal criminal statute.

‘‘(2) NO EFFECT ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

LAW.—Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or expand any law pertaining

to intellectual property.

‘‘(3) IN GENERAL.—Nothing in this section

shall be construed to prevent any State from

enforcing any State law that is consistent

with this section.

‘‘(f) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section:

‘‘(1) INTERNET.—The term ‘Internet’ means

the international computer network of both

Federal and non-Federal interoperable packet switched data networks.

‘‘(2) INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SERVICE.—The

term ‘interactive computer service’ means

any information service that provides computer access to multiple users via modem to

a remote computer server, including specifically a service that provides access to the

Internet.

‘‘(3) INFORMATION CONTENT PROVIDER.—The

term ‘information content provider’ means

any person or entity that is responsible, in

whole or in part, for the creation or development of information provided by the Internet or any other interactive computer service, including any person or entity that creates or develops blocking or screening software or other techniques to permit user control over offensive material.

‘‘(4) INFORMATION SERVICE.—The term ‘information service’ means the offering of a

capability for generating, acquiring, storing,

transforming, processing, retrieving, utilizing, or making available information via

telecommunications, and includes electronic

publishing, but does not include any use of

any such capability for the management,

control, or operation of a telecommunications system or the management of a telecommunications service.’’.

It was decided in the Yeas ....... 420 ! affirmative ................... Nays ...... 4

T109.14 [Roll No. 631]

AYES—420

Abercrombie

Ackerman

Allard

Archer

Armey

Bachus

Baesler

Baker (CA)

Baker (LA)

Baldacci

Ballenger

Barcia

Barr

Barrett (NE)

Barrett (WI)

Bartlett

Barton

Bass

Becerra

Beilenson

Bentsen

Bereuter

Berman

Bevill

Bilbray

Bilirakis

Bishop

Bliley

Blute

Boehlert

Boehner

Bonilla

Bonior

Bono

Borski

Boucher

Brewster

Browder

Brown (CA)

Brown (FL)

Brown (OH)

Brownback

Bryant (TN)

Bryant (TX)

Bunn

Bunning

Burr

Burton

Buyer

Callahan

Calvert

Camp

Canady

Cardin

Castle

Chabot

Chambliss

Chapman

Chenoweth

Christensen

Chrysler

Clay

Clayton

Clement

Clinger

Clyburn

Coble

Coburn

Coleman

Collins (GA)

Collins (IL)

Collins (MI)

Combest

Condit

Conyers

Cooley

Costello

Cox

Coyne

Cramer

Crane

Crapo

Cremeans

Cubin

Cunningham

Danner

Davis

de la Garza

Deal

DeFazio

DeLauro

DeLay

Dellums

Deutsch

Diaz-Balart

Dickey