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Article: Senator Says Y2K Granny Has Six Months to Live.
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- Computergram International
- Article date:
- August 5, 1999
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When the Year 2000 problem came up before the Senate Banking Committee earlier this week, Republican Senator Phil Gramm had an unusual take on the issue. "It seems to me we ought to be encouraged that in the year 1000 they had to add a new digit, and you had no evidence of economic disruption," Gramm said. "And then the millennium before, we had dates going down, and then they started going up, and yet no evidence of disruption or chaos in the economy, so if they could do it then, surely we could deal with it now, it seems to me."
At this point Robert Bennett, a Republican ...