11.   Now that the telecom bill has passed, consumers will feel its impact in many areas.

12.   President Clinton signs the telecom bill into law, but an anti-pornography provision co-authored by Sen. Dan Coats is causing an uproar among internet users and civil libertarians.

13.   Prices already have gone up in the wake of the telecom bill.

14.   So the telecom bill, as passed, forbids the communication of all such information over Internet or by e-mail.

15.   The new U.S. telecom bill promises to spur competition and innovation, but no one knows for sure if it will.

16.   The process of reconciling telecom overhaul bills from both chambers has begun.

17.   The telecom bill does not go this extra step.

18.   The telecom bill foundered on both election-year partisanship and the complexity of the issues involved.

19.   The telecom bill was supposed to promote competition.

20.   Yet Hyde has included it in the new telecom bill.