In article <1176320603.795881.195800@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups .com>,
LasVegasPI@aol.com says...
> Sen. Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat proposed legislation H.R.
> 4709: Law Enforcement and Phone Privacy Protection Act of 2006, and S.
> 2178: Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act of 2006, both passed
> committee. so it is no longer possible to legally purchase such
> information. It is illegal to obtain these records unless you are the
> actual owner of the phone and you can prove it.
>

Someone is badly in need of some fact checking. Nothing has legal
weight until it becomes law, and passing out of committee is far, far
from that. Every law has to pass a full vote in both houses, be
reconciled between the two houses for any differences, voted on again,
and then sent to the President who must then sign it before it's ever
legally binding. And that doesn't even account for all the goings-on
that can take place if he vetoes the bill.

Despite his most fervent wishes, Chuck Schumer is not the one who
decides what's law. Nor does he even have the power to dictate what
happens in the House of Representatives.