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FINS SPECIAL REPORT                                       August 11, 1994
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COMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1994 ORDERED REPORTED
Senate Commerce Committee Approves S.1822

Washington, DC, August 11, 1994--The "Communications Act of 1994" 
[S.1822], was ordered reported favorably today, with two amendments, by
the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in a vote of
18 to 2 (Sen. Packwood and Sen. McCain alone voting in opposition).  The
two amendments approved by the Committee included: 1) a measure by Sen.
Ted Stevens (D-AK) to assure that new entrants into the local telephone
market in Alaska are subject to the same regulations as local companies;
and 2) a measure by Sen. Charles Robb to establish a special education
fund that would help support the cost of connecting educational
institutions to the information superhighway, the funds to be allocated
out of the "universal Service" fund and from other sources.  The Committee
also ordered reported the "Antitrust and Communications Reform Act of
1994" and the "National Communications Competition and Information
Infrastructure Act of 1994" [HR 3626, HR 3636], passed by the House this
past June 28, 1994.