Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., “would not be happy” if defense...
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., “would not be happy” if defense appropriations legislation took broadband stimulus money away from NTIA and the Rural Utilities Service, the Commerce Committee chairman told us after the senators’ policy lunch Tuesday. Earlier this month, the…
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House passed and sent to the Senate a defense bill that would partially pay for new domestic spending using $602 million allocated to those agencies for broadband under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (CD July 6 p1) . Also, Rockefeller said that Senate negotiations on comprehensive cybersecurity legislation are “going well.” While some say working out differences between competing bills by Rockefeller and Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., may be a challenge (CD July 12 p2), Rockefeller said there’s “not much” overlap and he believes the two senators can work something out.