"At the end of the session, the intellectual property package was caught up in a crossfire about completely unrelated issues," RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy wrote in an e-mail. "The substance of it was not the issue."
A change in Federal Communications Commission accounting rules had forced the E-Rate program to stop sending out payments to schools and libraries that had been promised money, according to a spokesman for Senator Conrad Burns, a Montana Republican who pushed the Senate to approve the telecommunications bill that passed Wednesday. The bill, if signed by President George Bush, will restore that funding, said Burns spokesman Grant Toomey.
Burns argued the E-Rate program is important to schools and libraries in rural areas. "There are many areas across the country that are deficient in the available technology," Toomey said. "The nice thing about technology is you can bring those folks up to par. They can have access to the same information as a kid in New York City."
Other groups praised the Senate for passing the telecommunications bill, called the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act. The bill provides incentives to advance E-911 deployment, and it attempts to improve radio spectrum management as well as to maintain the Universal Service Fund, a pot of money from taxes on carriers that funds E-Rate and other telecommunications services to rural and poor areas.
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