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Lilly continued, "In July of this year, the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) worked with the European Union bureaucrats to kill Worldcom's proposed acquisition of Sprint. This activism cost investors more than $100 billion, and now these bureaucrats have set their sites on the proposed merger between Time Warner and AOL. The shift in policymaking from legislation to litigation creates uncertainty and havoc for investors, and discourages the very type of innovation that has driven our new economy."

To date, the reverberations of the Clinton/Gore administration's attack on the high-tech economy do not seem to have reached beyond the technology industry, but given how quickly the repercussions were felt throughout the technology sector, it is only a matter of time before the entire economy feels the impact of the radical intervention approach of the Clinton/Gore administration," said Lilly.
ONE TRILLION IN SHAREHOLDER VALUE DESTROYED - CLINTON/GORE ASSAULT ON HIGH-TECH INDUSTRY HAS COST AMERICAN INVESTORS MORE THAN $1 TRILLION ATR, Americans for Tax Reform, Nov. 2000.

Do we need to ask why the press didn't ask the Clinton/Gore administration about their business dealings? Or about the telecom industry pardons handed out by Clinton? Spin is one thing...intentionally working to destroy our President with lies and innuendo during wartime is another.

Worldcom, a Clinton/Gore "empowerment zone" business
Gore:Father of the Internet and Worldcom, WP.
www.digitaldivide.org, The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy.

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SEC Auditor Independence Hearing

The Senate Banking Securities Subcommittee held a hearing Sept. 28 on a hotly debated Securities and Exchange (SEC) proposed rule that would curtail the types of consulting that an accounting firm could provide its audit clients.

The SEC proposal, issued in June, seeks to prevent conflicts of interest by more clearly defining when an auditor is independent for purposes of SEC rules, and by requiring the financial statements of publicly traded companies to be independently audited. Those testifying included SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt; John H. Biggs, CEO of TIAA-CREF; and Barry Melancon, president of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Testimony from the hearing is available at

www.senate.gov/~banking/00_09h rg/092800/witness.htm

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It is a good question why even today the press doesn't ask clinton/gore/their minions about their business dealings and how they took campaign contributions from CEO's and those investigators disappeared. They also interferred in so many businesses and wonder how much campaign money changed hands or money under the table.

But we cannot expect the press to investigation something like that -- better to use the RAT talking point papers for their questions for their soundbites on the evening news.