Four House Judiciary Committee leaders praised the compromise...

Four House Judiciary Committee leaders praised the compromise that Senate Judiciary Committee lawmakers unveiled on a cellphone unlocking bill earlier this week (CD June 24 p10). The Senate language mirrors language the House used in the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act (HR-1123), passed earlier this year. “This is an issue of consumer choice and flexibility, plain and simple,” said House Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., ranking member John Conyers, D-Mich., and Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet subcommittee Chairman Howard Coble, R-N.C., and that subcommittee’s ranking member Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., in a joint statement.