Letter Asking for Better Access to Congressional Information

Speaker Newt Gingrich
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
via the Internet: GEORGIA6@HR.HOUSE.GOV
Dear Speaker Gingrich:

We are writing to ask for a renewed commitment to provide Americans with online access to essential Congressional documents.

In your November 11, 1994 remarks to the Washington Research Group Symposium, which are reprinted in your book "Contract With America," you state that "we will change the rules of the House to require that all documents and all conference reports and all committee reports be filed electronically as well as in writing and that they cannot be filed until they are available to any citizen who wants to pull them up. Thus, information will be available to any citizen in the country at the same moment it is available to the highest paid Washington lobbyist."

On January 5, 1995, you voiced your support for a letter signed by more than 800 Americans requesting free online access to Congressional documents. Commenting on their letter, you said, according to the January 14, 1995 issue of the National Journal, "Great! I want every American to have the maximum access to information, with the minimum cost, with the greatest convenience."

But your promise to provide online access to Congressional documents still remains unfulfilled. There are many important Congressional documents which are not available on the Library of Congress THOMAS system, GPO Access or any other free government online service. In particular:

1. Committee prints of bills. One of the most serious problems is the restricted access to "committee prints" of bills. While ordinary citizens are examining the copies of bills which have been introduced and made available through THOMAS and GPO Access, lobbyists and other well-connected insiders are studying the paper copies of a committee print or "chairman's mark" of a bill, which are the relevant documents for legislation. The House policy of preventing GPO from disseminating committee prints without permission of the chair of the committee is outrageous and should be changed. These documents should be available on the Internet as soon as they are available.

2. Federal Election Commission (FEC) reports. The Federal Elections Commission (FEC) reports on campaign contributions are of interest to millions of Americans. Online access through THOMAS or GPO Access would greatly broaden the dissemination of this important information. Currently, the FEC charges $20 per hour for a dial-up system which is not connected to the Internet.

3. Committee reports. When a committee passes a bill, it provides a report with important information explaining the bill, the hearings held, and the dissenting views on the legislation. Your promise to provide these documents on the Internet has not been fulfilled. As a result, citizens are still having great difficulty following the furious pace of legislative activity on a wide range of issues.

4. Voting records of members of Congress. While the votes on bills reaching the floor of the Senate or House are recorded in the online version of the Congressional Record, it is very time-consuming and often difficult to find these without extensive browsing of the documents. As we have suggested before, citizens should be able to access voting records on bills and amendments directly, indexed by bill title, bill number, and bill subject.

5. Amendments. Amendments should be made available on THOMAS as early as possible, so that citizens can review the substance of the amendment and make their views heard. For example, until an amendment is online, it should not be considered "introduced."

6. Congressional Research Service reports. In September 1994, CRS announced a pilot project for the electronic distribution of CRS Reports and Issue Briefs to Congressional offices. However, ordinary citizens are still without online access to these documents. These documents should be available to the public on THOMAS and GPO Access.

7. Verbatim transcripts (both corrected and uncorrected) from Congressional Hearings. Lobbyists can buy these from transcribers, but ordinary citizens have to wait months or even years for printed hearing records. We want uncorrected transcripts made available the day after the hearing, and corrected transcripts available ASAP.

8. Congressional testimonies. If persons testifying before Congress provide an electronic copy of their prepared testimony, the testimony should be immediately placed on THOMAS or GPO Access for broader public access. All government officials should be required to provide electronic copies of their prepared testimonies for public dissemination.

9. Discharge Petitions. The lists of Discharge Petition signers should be available online.

If you have any questions about how the House might put these materials online, or if you wish to discuss these issues, you can contact James Love at (202) 387-8030 or Gary Ruskin at (202) 296-2787.

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

James Love, Director, Taxpayer Assets Project

Gary Ruskin, Director, Congressional Accountability Project

Ann McBride, President, Common Cause

Lori Fena, Executive Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Jim Warren, Columnist, Govt. Technology, MicroTimes, BoardWatch

Paul Jacob, Executive Director, U. S. Term Limits

Ellen Miller, Executive Director, Center for Responsive Politics

Scott Armstrong, Executive Director, The Information Trust

Cleta Deatherage Mitchell, Director, Term Limits Legal Institute

David Hawkins, Senior Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council

Michael Panetta, CyberStrategy Project, Federation of American Scientists

Richard Vuernick, Legal Policy Director, Citizen Action

Tom Devine, Legal Director, Government Accountability Project

Danielle Brian, Executive Director, Project on Government Oversight

Conrad Martin, Executive Director, Fund for Constitutional Government

David L. Williams, Fairbanks, AK

Walt Herreid, Government Documents Librarian, Rasmuson Library, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK

Richard A. Peters, Birmingham, AL

Cheryl Martin, Information Specialist, Mobile, AL

Ted T. Poppke, Engineer, International Paper, Mobile, AL

Norm Wagner, Dean, Distance Learning and Extended Acade, Troy State Univ, Montgomery, AL

Dr. Steven G.Sanders, President and General Manager, Northern Arkansas Telephone Company, Flippin, AR

Ryan J. Schwartz, Fort Smith, AR

Anne Quiggle, Little Rock, AR

Paul J. Smith, Ed.D., Vice President, Alzheimer's Disease Chapter of Central Arkansas, Little Rock, AR

James L. Keyes, Commander, USN (Retired), Yellville, AR

Carol Ann Tyson, Student, Flagstaff, AZ

Jessica Russell, Education Chairman, Arizona Eagle Forum, Mesa, AZ

Michael Guida, Peoria, AZ

Alan Gatlin, CPA, Assistant Professor, DeVRY Institute of Technology, Phoenix, AZ

Catherine A. Cody, Phoenix, AZ

David Brook Burson, Phoenix, AZ

Kenneth D. Meyering, Owner (D.B.A.), IMMEDIA Expert Systems, Phoenix, AZ

Martin Thompson, Founder, Internet Users Consortium, Scottsdale, AZ

david richardson, Tempe, AZ

Douglas A Martin, Development Engineer, IBM, Tucson, AZ

Tom Miro, Public School Teacher, Alameda Unified School District, Alameda, CA

Scott Bourne, Azusa, CA

Dirk van Nouhuys, Berkeley, CA

Patrick Lufkin, Berkeley, CA

Peter Y. Sussman, Author, Berkeley, CA

Richard B. Fuchs, Principal Systems Programmer, Burlingame, CA

Frederick M. Chambers, Grad Student, Carlsbad, CA

Jack Schmidt, Engineer, Carlsbad, CA

Greg Bard, Progressive Student Union, CSUC, Chico, CA

Richard R Hayden, Citrus Heights, CA

Jillanne Green, West Coast Exec. Producer, Newstalk Voice of the People Radio, Copper, CA

David M. Wade, Information Systems Coordinator, Corona, CA

Scott Bieser, Corona, CA

T. Shannon Felker, Crescent City, CA

Albert J. Bresani, Cupertino, CA

Edward E.Callaway, Davis, CA

Lisa D. Trahms, Assistant Librarian I, University of California, Davis, CA

Paul Craig, Department of Applied Science, UC-Davis, Davis, CA

Gail Riley, El Cerrito, CA

James A. Wheaton, President, Harmonic Systems, Inc., Fairfax, CA

David C. Wigglesworth, Ph.D., President, D.C.W. Research Associates International, Foster City, CA

Christian Callahan, Industrial Engineering Manager, McDonnell Douglas Corp, Fountain Valley, CA

Jeff Davis, Fremont, CA

Alvin Lawson, professor, Garden Grove, CA

Barbara Lawson, Retired teacher, Garden Grove, CA

Kate Bauer, Grenada, CA

Joe Shea, Editor-in-Chief, The American Reporter, Hollywood, CA

Frank Holtzman, Huntington Beach, CA

Ken Bailey, President, Reality Enhancement Software, Irvine, CA

Jeffrey W. Watson, La Verne, CA

Louise Clark, Lafayette, CA

Florence S. Antoine, Loma Linda, CA

Dennis Paull, Los Altos, CA

Donn W. Christensen, Jr., Director of Academic Honors, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Enrique A. Gamez, Systems Analyst/Programmer, JPL/NASA, Los Angeles, CA

Jonathan Bailin, Ph.D., Los Angeles, CA

David McKay, Los Gatos, CA

Trisha Lamb Feuerstein, Lower Lake, CA

Russ B. Altman, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA

Anne Montgomery, City Librarian, Mill Valley Public Library, Mill Valley, CA

Justine Roberts, Librarian Emerita, Univ. of Calif., San Francisco, Mill Valley, CA

Scott McKown, Mill Valley, CA

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Gerald M. Swatez, Murrieta, CA

Bob Bruning, Northridge, CA

Audrey Johnson, Oakdale, CA

Barbara S. Miller, Pharm.D., Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Oakland, CA

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Julia L. Kay, Oakland, CA

Mary Engle, Univ. of California, Library Automation, Oakland, CA

Nathan Newman, Co-Director, UC-Berkeley Center for Community Economic Research, Oakland, CA

Phil Mann, Oceanside, CA

Craig Lewis, National Account Manager, American Mobile Satellite Corp, Pacific Palisades, CA

John Chandler, Palmdale, CA

Al Whaley, President, Sunnyside Computing, Palo Alto, CA

Arthur M. Keller, Senior Research Scientist, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Avron Barr, Aldo Ventures, Inc., Palo Alto, CA

B. Sheryl Geddes, Palo Alto, CA

Harry J. Saal, Palo Alto, CA

Liza Loop, Palo Alto, CA

Malati Shinazy, Consultant/Program Leader, The Tom Peters Group/Learning Systems, Palo Alto, CA

Marianna G. Keller, Palo Alto, CA

Marilyn Davis, Ph.D., Owner, Frontier Systems, Palo Alto, CA

Mary Jo Levy, President, California Library Association, Palo Alto, CA

Noam Kaminer, Ph.D candidate, U.C. Berkeley, Palo Alto, CA

Thomas C. Rindfleisch, Director, Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Janet C. Jenks, Federal Depository Librarian, California Institute Of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Stephen M. Eppley, Microcomputer Consultant, Pasadena, CA

Randy Alan Laugel, Pinole, CA

Josh Cohen, Pleasanton, CA

Catherine J. Penprase, Port Hueneme, CA

Bruce A. Hamilton, Redondo Beach, CA

Richard Foy, Redondo Beach, CA

Clinton R. Kraft, Redwood City, CA

Dick Diamond, Riverside, CA

Bruce C. Rogers, Political Science Instructor, Sierra College, Rocklin, CA, Sacramento, CA

Gary A. Patton, General Counsel, Planning and Conservation League, Sacramento, CA

Henry A VanderLeest, San Bernardino, CA

Earl Balch, San Diego, CA

Glenn Stangel, Chapter Vice Chairman, United We Stand America, Ch. 4901, San Diego, CA

Matthew D. Boxberger, Computervision Corp., San Diego, CA

Rodger L. Silvers, Computer Analyst, San Diego, CA

Adrienne Aj Davis, Help Desk Technician, San Francisco, CA

Alan Fisher, San Francisco, CA

Butler Crittenden, Ph.D., San Francisco, CA

Charles E. Dupree, San Francisco, CA

Douglas Gray, San Francisco, CA

Gabriella Marks, San Francisco, CA

Jeffrey Logsdon, San Francisco, CA

Lora Dalton, San Francisco, CA

Michael Kanaley, Principal Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, San Francisco, CA

Nicole Barr, User Support Manager, Institute for Global Communications, San Francisco, CA

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Ray Russ, Operational Health Physicist, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, San Francisco, CA

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Steven Krefting, Deputy Political Director, Sierra Club, San Francisco, CA

Dave Millman, CEO, TACTICS, San Jose, CA

Donald L. Trask, Your Voices Count Project, San Jose, CA

Mindy Reeves, San Jose, CA

Sean D. Martin, San Jose, CA

Sister Mary Elizabeth, S.S.E., President, AIDS Education Global Information System, San Juan Capistrano, CA

Jerry Bunin, News Reporter, San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune, San Luis Obispo, CA

Frank Scott, president, marin democratic club, california democratic central committee, San Rafael, CA

Henry Levin, Editor, The Free Spirit Journal, San Rafael, CA

Kevin J Dillon, Global Focus, San Rafael, CA

Margarita Ajamian, San Rafael, CA

Carey Vigor Zierk, Santa Ana, CA

Beverly Ryan, Bibliographic Systems Librarian, Davidson Library, University of Florida, Santa Barbara, CA

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Bill Selmeier, Chairperson UWSA Santa Clara County Chapte, Administrator of UWSA@shell.portal.com mail list, Saratoga, CA

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Patricia M. Cuocco, Director, Information Technology Policy &, Western Coop for Ed. Telecommunications, Seal Beach, CA

Steve Zavala, Engineer, Simi Valley, CA

David L. Dill, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Stanford Universit, Stanford, CA

Elizabeth Wolf, doctoral candidate, Computer Science Dept, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Gio Wiederhold, PhD, Professor, Stanford University, Computer Science Dep., Stanford, CA

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Joseph E. Bates, President, Dimmickville Productions, Venice, CA

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Calvin Dodge, Denver, CO

Eric L. Feder, Director, Educational Telecommunications, Colorado Department of Education, Denver, CO

Larry Sessions, Editor & Publisher, Final Copy, Inc., Denver, CO

Michael O Johnston, Legislative Assistant, State Senator Mike Coffman, Colorado Senate, Denver, CO

Tony Middleton, Network Admin., Denver, CO

Jerry Carlson, Medical Librarian, Poudre Valley Hospital, Fort Collins, CO

Steven Zahniser, Lafayette, CO

Ann Krohn Rick, Loveland, CO

Dr. John A. Stewart, Associate Professor, University of Hartford, Bolton, CT

Jacqueline Stevens, Guilford Free Library, Guilford, CT

Gary Rudnick, Professor, Yale University School of Medicine, Hamden, CT

Richard G. Akeroyd Jr., State Librarian, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, CT

Amelia Alvarez, New Haven, CT

Sandy Peterson, Documents Librarian, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Eric Harris-Braun, Newtown, CT

Robert Szarka, Partner, Brazerko Communications, Norwich, CT

Michael S. Plafker, Oneco, CT

Charles Logan, Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Hugh McGuire, West Hartford, CT

Stuart Arotsky, Chairman, Cable Advisory Council, Wet Haven, CT

Anthony Pharr, Counsel, Office of Communication, United Church of Christ, Washington, DC

Douglas A. Klein, Washington, DC

Gawain Kripke, Friends of the Earth, Washington, DC

George D Krumbhaar, President, Krumbhaar/Associates, Washington, DC

Jessica Vallette, Washington, DC

Patricia Aufderheide, Associate Professor, American University, Washington, DC

Philippe Roussiere, Washington, DC

Robert D. Kampia, Director of Government Relations, Marijuana Policy Project, Washington, DC

Willard Saunders, Washington, DC

William Sugg, Editor, The Green Disk Journal, Washington, DC

L. Leon Campbell, Professor of Molecular Biosciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

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Jim Ray, Coral Gables, FL

Robert G. Freeman, Jr., CICS Systems Programmer, Univ. Of FL - NERDC, Gainesville, FL

Richard M. Feezel, Havana, FL

Owen Elliott, Juno Beach, FL

Louis J. Devillon, Jupiter, FL

Kristina M. Gulick, Sr. Criminal Justice Analyst, Lake Park, FL

Jennifer Aranza, University of Central Florida, Longwood, FL

Carol Chalmers, Miami, FL

Carroll E. Brown, Owner, Carroll E. Brown & Associates, Miami Beach, FL

Wayne Bargar, Miami Beach, FL

Elizabeth Beatrice, Head Librarian, Sarasota County Government, North Port Public Libr, North Port, FL

George Ulrich, Sarasota, FL

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William H. Button, Professor of Social Welfare, State University of New York, Sarasota, FL

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Ardis Hanson, Tampa, FL

Robert F. Jaffe, Attorney at law, Vero Beach, FL

Diana Cunningham, Director, Criminal Justice Commission, W. Palm Beach, FL

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David M. Moore, General Counsel, Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, Inc., Atlanta, GA

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Steven J. Campbell, Graduate Student in Political Science, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

Wanda M. Perkins, Library Assistant III, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

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Colin S. Cavell, Department of Political Science, U. Mass., Amherst, MA

Joseph F. McCarthy, Graduate Research Assistant, University of Massachusetts, Department of Compute, Amherst, MA

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Ronald Regan Jr., Arlington, MA

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Anthony Harris, Brookline, MA

Diane Garner, Head, Govt. Documents and Non-Book Formats, Widener Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Hans K. Klein, New England Director, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, Cambridge, MA

Jeremy Grainger, MIT, Cambridge, MA

David T. Blackburn, Dalton, MA

Michael Grant, Budget Manager, Public Facilities, City of Boston, Jamaica Plain, MA

Mark Rossi, student, MIT, Medford, MA

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Dr. W. Curtiss Priest, Director, Ctr. for Info., Tech. & Society, Melrose, MA

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Jose M. daLuz, New Bedford, MA

Burton Kreindel, Attorney, Law Offices of Burton Kreindel, Newton, MA

Kristine E. Colarossi, Student, Harvard University, Revere, MA

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William E. Smith, West Roxbury, MA

john kumpf, software senior engineer, grafton, MA

Maria B. Pellerano, Associate Director, Environmental Research Foundation, Annapolis, MD

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Robert Mitchell, Bel Air, MD

Edward Garner, Chevy Chase, MD

Georgia Sorenson, Ph.D., University of Maryland, Chevy Chase, MD

Scott Cousland, Laurel, MD

Jonathan Scolnik, Potomac, MD

Becky J. Lyon, Rockville, MD

David L. Goodwin, Program Director, Logistics Management Institute, Rockville, MD

David B. Hack, Technology Writer, Researcher, Consultant, Silver Spring, MD

Kathleen Michels, Silver Spring, MD

Lara Wiggert, Research Librarian, Silver Spring, MD

Melinda Michels, Takoma Park, MD

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Richard K Riley, Technology Coordinator, Maine Department of Education, Augusta, ME

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Kevin B. Murphy, Portland, ME

Christopher Beecher, Computer Systems Consultant, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

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Kendall Wright, Flint, MI

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Christine Lind Hage, Director, Rochester Hills Public Library, Rochester, MI

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Bruce A Drew, Minneapolis, MN

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Patricia Antrim, Librarian, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO

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Chris Kaman, Chapel Hill, NC

James R. Barnes, Jr., Office of Information Technology, University of No, Chapel Hill, NC

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Brian Hartzog, Charlotte, NC

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Larry Rosenfeld, Newsletter Editor, North Carolina Network for Animals, Durham, NC

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John Ost, Science Writer, Nashua, NH

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Jim Doolittle, Portsmouth, NH

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Tony Preston, Medford, NJ

Lynn Young, Mount Holly, NJ

Robert L. McCarty, Old Bridge, NJ

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Tom Upshaw, Somerset, NJ

Tracy Carcione, Teaneck, NJ

Steven R. Sterling, Wharton, NJ

Irene La Branche, Albuquerque, NM

Malcolm Fitzsimmons, Albuquerque, NM

Steve Armijo, Albuquerque, NM

Michael S. Yesley, Santa Fe, NM

Stephen A. Mallison, Carson City, NV

Denise Schaar, Program Coordinator, Master of Judicial Studies Degree Program, U of NV, Reno, NV

John Schumacher, State University of New York, Albany, NY

Andrea Reynosa, Brooklyn, NY

Bruno Bianchi, Brooklyn, NY

Cheryl Spear, Vice President, Student Organization for Every Disability United f, Brooklyn, NY

Eugene Marner, Brooklyn, NY

Kevin Vertrees, Brooklyn, NY

Nedda Allbray, Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY

Patricia Ann Bromberger, President, Student Organization for Every, Profess at Brooklyn College/CUNY, Brooklyn, NY

Philippa Strum, Professor of Political Science, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY

Jennifer Cobb Kreisberg, Chatham, NY

Henry J. Steck, Distinguished Service Professor & Prof. of, Suny College, Cortland, Cortland, NY

Jerome O'Callaghan, Associate Professor, State University of New York, Cortland, NY

W. Michael Wheeless, Delmar, NY

Gay Baines, East Aurora, NY

Carl Ferraro, Ph.D., Professor, SUNY, Fredonia, Fredonia, NY

Robert Abrazado, Governors Island, NY

Joan Packard, Groton, NY

Samuel Wolf, Hauppague, NY

Barb Morley, Reference Librarian, Martin P. Catherwood, Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor, Ithaca, NY

Douglas Foster, Planning Systems Manager, City of Ithaca, Ny, Ithaca, Ny

Neil Ruggles, Ruggles Interactive Media, Jackson Heights, NY

Peggy J. Armstrong, NATCA Eastern Region Legislative Chairman, National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATC, Liverpool, NY

Ellen McCartney, Nesconset, NY

Robert S. Devino, President, Rockland County (NY) Public Library Association, New City, NY

Donald Silberger, New Paltz, NY

Alan D. Sugarman, President, HyperLaw, Inc., New York, NY

Alexis Rosen, President, Public Access Networks Corporation, New York, NY

Aymerik Renard, Associate Manager, Business Development, FTNA, New York, NY

Dan Armstrong, New York, NY

Dennis W. Frado, New York, NY

Dennis W. Frado, New York, NY

Diana Tsingopoulos, New York, NY

Ed Flynn, New York, NY

Erminio D'Onofrio, Government Information Librarian, New York Public Library, New York, NY

Glenn S. Daily, New York, NY

JOANNE JAHR, Research Librarian, New York, NY

Jerry W. Breeze, Head, Documents Service Center, Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY

John Fisher, Director, TenantNet, New York, NY

John Reinitz, Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology, New York, NY

Jonathan Giles, New York, NY

Lucy Komisar, journalist, free-lance, New York, NY

Marc Andrew Landis, Esq., New York, NY

Michael J. Lavery, Esq., New York, NY

Michael Pollak, New York, NY

Roger Hayes, New York, NY

Steven E. Barber, New York, NY

James M. Corrigan, Northport, NY

James Mays, Chair, Sierra Club, Atlantic Chapter, Olivebridge, NY

Margaret N. Weitzmann, Asst. Librarian, F. W. Crumb Library, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY

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