AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REFORM ACT DENTON AMENDMENT NO. 2715
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S 1642 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE
S. RES. 352
Resolved, That the Secretary of the
Senate hereby is authorized and directed to
pay, from the contingent fund of the
Senate, to Joyce L. Thiss, widow of George
R. Thiss III, an employee of the Senate at
the time of his death, a sum equal to five
months' compensation at the rate he was re-
ceiving by law at the time of his death, said
sum to be considered inclusive of funeral ex-
penses and all other allowances.
SENATE RESOLUTION 353-RE-
LATING TO UNIVERSAL BASIC
TELEPHONE SERVICE
Mr. LAUTENBERG (for himself,
Mr. FORD, Mr. EXON, and Mr. INOUYE)
submitted the following resolution
which was referred to the Committee
on Commerce, Science and Transpor-
tation:
S. RES. 353
Whereas the telecommunications industry
is in a state of transition due to organiza-
tional changes in the industry as well as
technological advances and rapidly develop-
ing competition;
Whereas it is essential that affordable
basic telephone service remain universally
available during and after this transition;
Whereas efforts now underway that are
intended to provide long-run benefits to in-
dividual consumers and to the U.S. economy
generally, may have a negative effect on
universal service; and -
Whereas, the sudden transition to new
pricing levels, mechanisms and structures
for a variety of telecommunications serv-
ices-including local access, special access,
and OCC access-may threaten the viability
of alternative networks, the vitality of inter-
exchange competition, and the maintenance
of universal service.
Now, therefore be it resolved that it is the
sense of the United States Senate, That
1. A proper balance of the public interest
requires a reliance on sound economic prin-
ciples and open marketplace competition
only to the extent it does not jeopardize the
universal availability of affordable basic
telephone service of adequate quality;
2. The Federal Communications Commis-
sion should institute no flat end user
charges for residential and single line busi-
ness customers until it throughly docu-
ments that such charges will not threaten
universal basic telephone service and sub-
mits the results of its study to the Senate in
sufficient advance time to enable the Senate
to exercise its oversight function. If pro-
posed, such changes shall not be implement-
ed before June, 1985.
3. If the Commission implements flat end
user charges after completing the study
called for above, it shall at the same time, in
conjunction with the states ensure the insti-
tution of reduced cost basic telephone or
lifeline service for those people who other-
wise would not be able to afford basic tele-
phone services and it shall exempt such
people from the obligation to pay any flat
end user charge adopted by the Commis-
sion.
Devise and implement a plan, whereby
rural small telephone companies with high
costs will receive necessary additional assist-
ance in excess of that which the Commis-
sion had announced in July 1983 for such
companies, in order to ensure affordable
basic telephone service to their customers;
Carefully review the tariffs for interex-
change telecommunications services that
are filed to carry out the Commission's
action to ensure that the prices for such
services are reduced to the maximum extent
possible:
4. If the Commission finds, after thorough
and scrupulous review, that there are justi-
fied significant changes in the pricing levels,
mechanisms and structures for telecommu-
nications services-including local access,
special access, and OCC access-the Com-
mission shall implement such changes in a
gradual transition, in order to minimize the
impact of the viability of alternative net-
works, the vitality of competition, and the
maintenance of universal service. According-
ly, if the Commission shall impose flat end
user charges on residential and single-line
business customers, those charges shall not
exceed $4 per month per line prior to 1990
and the implementation of the charges
rising to the $4 level shall be phased in
gradually. The Commission shall not consid-
er any further increases in the charges
before additional study and Congressional
oversight in the light of facts developed
during the transition period between 1984
and 1990. Also, the Commission shall
expand the exemption from surcharges on
private line surcharges to include those
users who appropriately verify that they do
not interconnect with the public switched
telephone network.
? Mr. LAUTENBERG. Mr. President,
today I am introducing a sense of the
Senate resolution regarding the con-
tinuing transition in telecommunica-
tions, particularly, the effort by the
Federal Communications Commission
to phase out the so-called long dis-
tance subsidy of local fixed costs and
to substitute a so-called access charge
on all local customers. I am joined by
Senators FORD, EXON, and INOUYE.
On January 26, 1984, the Senate
agreed to table a motion to proceed to
S. 1660, a bill to impose a 2-year mora-
torium on access charges on residen-
tial and small business telephone cus-
tomers. While I had earlier supported
a legislative response to the Commis-
sion, I argued during Senate considera-
tion that recent actions by the FCC
made legislation, at least for the time
being, unnecessary.
In'obvious response to congressional
concern, the Commission tentatively
agreed on January 19, and confirmed
on January 25, to postpone access
charges, to mandate a mechanism to
insure lifeline service for the poor, and
to address other concerns expressed
here. As recently as last week, the
Commission issued a memorandum
opinion and order in furtherance of its
January decision. We are introducing
this resolution to make clear our in-
tention to hold the Commission to its
word.
I do 'want to emphasize, however,
that this resolution does not address
the matter of restoring the pension
portability rights of the employees of
the former Bell System. That is some-
thing that we must correct through
legislation. I am committed to doing
that and I know so are many others in-
cluding Senators FORD, EXON, RIEGLE,
and PACKWOOD.
Mr. President, we will continue to
exercise our powers of oversight over
the Commission-to insure that uni-
versal service is maintained, and to
insure as best we can that this pro-
February 23, 1984
found change in the telecommunica-
tions industry works well for consum-
ers, both business and residential, the
industry and its many workers, and
the Nation as a whole.*
AMENDMENTS SUBMITTED
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
REFORM ACT
DENTON AMENDMENT NO. 2715
(Ordered to lie on the table.)
Mr. DENTON submitted an amend-
ment intended to be proposed by him
to the bill (S. 774) entitled the "Free-
dom of Information Reform Act"; as
follows:
On page 16, line 24, strike out "or".
On page 17, line 6, strike out all after
"functions" and insert in lieu thereof "func-
tions; or".
On page 17, between lines 6 and 7, insert
the following:
"(12) related to the investigation of terror-
ism or concerned with foreign counterintel-
ligence operations.".
On page 17, strike out lines 8 through 15
and insert in lieu thereof the following:
SEC. 12. Section 552(b) of title 5, United
States Code, is amended by striking out the
second sentence thereof.
KENNEDY (AND OTHERS)
AMENDMENT NO. 2716
Mr. KENNEDY (for himself, Mr.
THURMOND, Mr. BIDEN, Mr. LAXALT,
Mr. LEAHY, Mr. EAST, Mr. DENTON, Mr.
MOYNIHAN and Mr. CHILES) proposed
an amendment to the bill (S. 52) to
combat violent and major crime by es-
tablishing a Federal offense for con-
tinuing a career of robberies or burg-
laries while armed and providing a
mandatory sentence of life imprison-
ment; as follows:
(1) On page 5, strike line 3 and insert in
lieu thereof the following: "of a robbery or
burglary offense which may be prosecuted
in a court of the United States, or";
(2) On page 5, strike line 12 and insert in
lieu thereof the following: "(c) The offense
referred to in subsection (b) of";
(3) On page 7, line 9, add "and" aft,
"way;"
(4) On page 7, line 11, delete "; and" at
insert a period after "person"; and
(5) On page 7, strike section 4(c).
EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT
AMENDMENTS
PERCY AMENDMENTS NO. 2717
THROUGH 2720
(Ordered to lie on the table.)
Mr. PERCY submitted four amend-
ments intended to be proposed by him
to the bill (S. 979) to amend and
reauthorize the Export Administration
Act of 1979; as follows:
AMENDMENT No. 2717
On page 41, strike out line 7.
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