Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 4:43am
"Issues like telecom, surveillance, copyright and patents are too controversial, too intricate or both for such a short session," said Will Rodger, public policy director for the Computer and Communications Industry Association, whose members include Google, Oracle and Sun Microsystems. "Congress, in the meantime, has a slew of appropriations bills to pass, and those could take up all the time they have left."