The Senate Appropriations Committee approved the FCC’s FY13 funding request as...
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved the FCC’s FY13 funding request as part of the financial services and general government appropriations bill on a 16-14 party line vote. The committee Thursday reported out the bill, which contains $347.8 million funding for…
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the agency, a 2.3 percent increase from the current year. The bill includes provisions to require the commission and the FTC to study the online privacy policies that govern how companies handle consumer information sent over wireless networks. The privacy provision could negatively impact “a number of different industries that are spurring innovation and creating jobs,” said Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark. “We need to be very careful when we are dealing with privacy to make sure that we find that right balance between privacy, which is very important, and innovation and economic growth.” Last week the House Appropriations Subcommittee introduced language into its FY13 spending bill that would restrict the FCC’s ability to implement a new rule that would put some TV stations’ political file contents online (CD June 7 p2).