Box 3

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Topics include broadcast regulations, advertising, Federal Trade Commission, commercials during children's programming, Utility Consumer Refund Act, Southwestern Bell, cable rates and service, and billboards. Correspondents include John Bryant, Matthew Rinaldo, Terry Bruce, James J. Florio, Steve Gunderson, E. Clay Shaw, and John Lewis.

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Topics include automated telephone solicitations, Children's Television Act, health warnings and alcohol advertising, tobacco advertising, and Sensible Advertising and Family Education Act. Correspondents include Congressional Research Service and National Association of Broadcasters.

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Topics include alternate operator services, Emergency Phone System Equal Access Act for the Hearing and Speech Impaired, Automated Telephone Solicitation Protection Act, rural long distance calls, and HDTV. Correspondents include Jim Cooper, Robert Garcia, Marge Roukema, Barney Frank, Al Swift, Mike Synar, Jim Slattery, Mel Levine, and Don Ritter.

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Topics include cable industry regulations and Mid-America Cable TV Association 1993 Directory. Correspondents include Meribeth Sloan and David Bialis.

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Topics include Privacy for Consumers and Workers Act, electronic surveillance, employee privacy, and requirements for employers to notify employees of electronic monitoring.

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Topics include Privacy for Consumers and Workers Act, electronic surveillance, employee privacy, and employee theft and fraud. Correspondents include National Association of Manufacturers and MCI.

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Coverage of controversial issues of public importance, broadcasting, reporting all sides of controversial issues, opposing viewpoints, Fairness in Broadcasting Acts of 1989 and 1993, and Shortchanging the Viewer (report). Correspondents include National Association of Broadcasters, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance, Essential Information, and Congressional Research Service.

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Topics include phone service installation costs, Link-Up Tennessee, cable television deregulation, anti-smoking public service announcements, emergency phone access for the hearing and speech impaired, and beepers and pagers. Correspondents include Bob Clement, Brian Donnelly, Anthony C. Beilenson, Robert Garcia, and Kweisi Mfume.

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Topics include information technology, telecommunications infrastructure, telecommunications policy, and National Communications Competition and Information Infrastructure Act. Correspondents include Information Technology Association of America, National Association of Manufacturers, Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association, Association for Local Telecommunications Services, and GTE.

Scope and Contents Topics include Communications Competitiveness and Infrastructure Modernization Act, Albert Gore, Clinton Administration technology policy, telecommunications, cable television, An Infostructure for All Americans (booklet), Economic Impact of Eliminating the Line-of-Business Restriction on the Bell Companies (report), and long distance calling. Correspondents include Electronic Frontier Foundation, Computer Systems Policy Project, Information Industry Association, National Cable Television...