8:02 PM :: Stephen (contact)

The Senate 0wnZ j00! One of the things I learned as an intern for the House Judiciary Democrats is that members of Congress can reserve specific numbers for the bills they introduce. (Thus, Dick Armey's 2001 tax reform bill was numbered H.R. 1040.)

A suggestion by Steve Wu led to the following discovery. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) has been described as "one of the most tech-savvy candidates," and was "one of the first 10 employees of Real Networks." Which raises the question: during the 107th Congress, when she introduced this bill, was she consciously seeking to raise a generation of 1337 h4X0rZ?