Sens. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, reached...
Sens. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, reached a tentative agreement on draft comprehensive spectrum legislation that would give the 700 MHz D-block to public safety, a GOP committee staffer told us Thursday. Due to a scheduling conflict…
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for Hutchison on May 25, the Senate Commerce Committee won’t mark up S-911 until the week of June 6 when the Senate returns from Memorial Day recess, the staffer said. Rockefeller and Hutchison, the committee’s chairman and ranking member respectively, reached consensus after a meeting Wednesday afternoon to discuss the scheduling conflict, the staffer said. There have been changes to the bill since the draft circulated last week, the staffer said. The substance of those changes is unclear. Rockefeller has been pushing the bill hard in recent days (CD May 18 p5) and had originally sought to mark up the public safety bill before Memorial Day.