We established the process for these companies to make a checklist, a checklist that will make them fully competitive with the local service agents, to be fully competitive with the local service areas, and they can go ahead and give them local, long-distance service. The Bells have to make the checklist. Some of them haven't done it at all. Senator Brownback and I wrote that bill last year. It was one of the few pieces of legislation that everybody supports.
Local government supports it, state government supports it, the industry supports it.
Everybody believes it is necessary and that this legislation is almost unique. Republicans and Democrats have cooperated. The industries and the local governments want to get that passed. In cell phone use you have taxes applied by states and local governments on the use of cell phones. People are mobile, they are moving all across the country.