The House Commerce Committee plans hearings and oversight this session...
The House Commerce Committee plans hearings and oversight this session on issues related to cybersecurity, privacy and data security, the FCC, the nation’s wired and wireless communications networks, Internet governance and public safety communications, among other issues, it said in…
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an announcement this week. The committee officially plans to adopt its oversight agenda (http://xrl.us/boesep) for the 113th Congress at a business meeting at 4 p.m. Tuesday in Room 2123 Rayburn. The committee’s oversight plan said the nation’s current communications regulatory regime takes a “siloed approach” that may be decades old, and the committee said it will examine whether such regulations should be updated. Commerce members will do FCC oversight to evaluate the impact of the commission’s actions on voice, video, audio and data services, the plan said. The committee will pay “particular attention to whether the FCC conducts cost-benefit and market analyses before imposing regulations,” according to the plan. Oversight of NTIA and RUS’s broadband grants and loans will be done to determine the efficiency of the broadband investments, whether the funds were appropriately targeted, and the impact of the funding on jobs and the economy. The committee will monitor any efforts to replace the multistakeholder model of Internet governance with regulation, the plan said. The committee will determine whether the needs of first responders are being met, evaluate the progress of FirstNet’s development, and determine whether first responders have been allocated adequate spectrum. Commerce will seek to ensure the country is “well protected” from cybersecurity threats while avoiding one-size-fits all approaches that “hinder the flexibility of commercial and governmental actors,” according to the oversight plan.