Democrats on the House Commerce Committee warned the...
Democrats on the House Commerce Committee warned the shutdown is hurting the FCC and other telecom and media proceedings. The FCC “may be forced to postpone the first spectrum auction for mobile broadband in six years scheduled for January 2014,”…
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they said in a Tuesday letter to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio (http://1.usa.gov/H1P3rU). “Neither the National Telecommunications Information Administration nor the FCC is able to work with federal, regional, and local agencies to investigate possible communications system failures for first responders during the shooting at Navy Yard last month.” The letter also warns of how the shutdown is affecting the FTC and its ability to investigate and prosecute fraud. They requested Boehner allow the House to vote on a clean continuing resolution to fund all government agencies and end the government shutdown.