Just caught tail end of this hearing and noticed more shifting in government stance. Sen. Bennet picked up on one statement drilling home the position that "Y2K Could Be Serious and Worth Being Prepared For!" Anyone catch the whole hearing?

-- (snowleopard6@webtv.net), June 02, 1999

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I thnk it was a rebroadcast from last week.

From cspan.org:

02:41pm to 04:38pm ET11:41am to 01:38pm PT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Senate Committee Year 2000 Computer Problems: Community Hart Senate Office Building Senate Special Cmte. Year 2000 Tech.Prob Washington, DC ID : 123741Length : 1 hr 56 minEvent date : 05/25/99

Adams, James, Chairman and CEO, Infrastructure Defense Bennett, Robert F., U.S. Senator 1993-, R-UT Brock, Kerry, Researcher, Freedom Forum Christian, Liza, Representative, Y2K Task Force Cochran, Barbara, President, Radio and Televison News Directors Assn. Dodd, Christopher J., U.S. Senator 1981-, D-CT Hotka, Cathy, Vice President, National Retail Federation Jaroslovsky, Rich, Correspondent, Wall Street Journal McGill, Lawrence, Researcher, Freedom Forum Nolan, Michael, City Administrator, Nebraska O'Reilly, Paloma, Director, Cassandra Project

04:10 )'Reilly, Christian, Nolan, Hotka panel (1:10) 05:20 McGill, Brock, Cochran, Adams, Jarolovsky (0:47)

Witnesses testified about measures that communities, small businesses, and individuals had taken, or could take, to prepare for potential problems with computers on January 1, 2000. A panel of community leaders testified that the media had made preparations harder because their coverage focused on people who had taken extreme measures to prepare, making it hard for others to view the problem in a serious manner. A sceond panel of media representatives responded saying that without strong government leadership on the issue, and with conflicting information being presented by the government, it was impossible to present a clear mesage. Without a clear analysis of the problem, they argued, the public would either be complacent or would panic.

-- Roland (nottelling@nowhere.com), June 02, 1999.

A full transcript of what was said is located at this thread:

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=000tPY

:)

-- FM (vidprof@aol.com), June 02, 1999.