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<br />2 <br /> <br />1 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. <br />2 Congress finds that- <br />3 (1) cell phones and other electronic devices are <br />4 not only instrumentalities and channels of interstate <br />5 commerce, but products of interstate commerce; <br />6 (2) for those reasons, regulation of the use of <br />7 cellular telephones or other electronic devices to send <br />8 text messages is covered by the power of Congress <br />9 to regulate interstate commerce as enumerated In <br />10 article I, section 8 of the Constitution; <br />11 (3) additionally, the Supreme Court held in <br />12 South Dakota v. Dole, 483 U.S. 203 (June 23, <br />13 1987), that Congress may condition Federal high- <br />14 way funding on State compliance 'with certain condi- <br />15 tions; <br />16 (4) people in the United States are using cel- <br />17 lular telephones and other personal electronic devices <br />18 to send text messages or emails, more commonly <br />19 known as "texting", with increasing frequency; <br />20 (5) according to the N ew York Times, more <br />21 than 110,000,000,000 te).-t messages were sent in <br />22 the United States during the month of December <br />23 2008 alone, a tenfold increase in just 3 years; <br />24 (6) texting and portable email are valuable to <br />25 consumers, businesses, and private individuals <br />26 throughout the United States, but those services also <br /> <br />.S 1536 IS <br />