Vote tally:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll559.xml
Text of bill:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.01606:
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http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5929587.html
Democrats defeat election-law aid for bloggers
November 2, 2005, 7:55 PM PST
Democrats on Wednesday managed to defeat a bill aimed at amending U.S.
election laws to immunize bloggers from hundreds of pages of federal
regulations.
In an acrimonious debate that broke largely along party lines, more than
three-quarters of congressional Democrats voted to oppose the reform
bill, which had enjoyed wide support from online activists and Web
commentators worried about having to comply with a tangled skein of rules.
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