[ltp] FW: Surcharges on Email

[David H Elrod]

Mr. Walmsley,

> 
> Have you heard about this?
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> 
> Subject:    Surcharges on Email
>
> ... Bill 602P will permit the Federal Govt to charge a  5 cent
> surcharge on every email delivered, by billing Internet Service
> Providers at source....

I just did a search at:
    http://thomas.loc.gov/
and
    http://www.senate.gov/

and both claim that there is no "Bill 602P".

I did find "H.R.602" which is about long term health insurance.
I searched each page of this bill for "email" to see if there
were any riders, but found no matches, and saw only insurance
stuff.

I did a search on "email" and found:
1 . E-Mail User Protection Act (Introduced in the House)[H.R.1910.IH]
2 . Online Privacy Protection Act of 1999 (Introduced in the Senate)[S.809.IS]

My congressperson gets a lot of "false warnings". I don't want 
to add to her chaos if I can help it.

Could you please verify that this is really a valid warning?

Thanks,
David

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