McCaskill May Try to Make Pay-TV Billing Concerns Subject of Investigations Subcommittee Hearings
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., may try to resurrect her concerns about pay-TV industry billing practices in hearings of the Senate Homeland Security Investigations Subcommittee, she told us at the Capitol this week. McCaskill is ranking member of that subcommittee and…
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a Commerce Committee member. She aggressively focused on those issues in the last Congress, proposing and withdrawing legislation in the form of an amendment to Commerce’s Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act reauthorization bill and nearly holding a hearing on the issues in December (see 1412030047). That hearing would have been held when she was still chairwoman of Commerce’s Consumer Protection Subcommittee, when Democrats held the majority in the Senate. “I’ve got to visit with my [Commerce Committee] chair before I know,” she said of next steps with any legislation and attention to those pay-TV issues. She said Commerce Chairman John Thune, R-S.D., seems “fixated” on net neutrality at the moment. Industry lobbyists doubted Thune would give McCaskill the platform she seeks to attack pay-TV industry practices that she would have had last Congress if the hearing she wanted were held. “I haven’t had a chance to sit down with my chair on PSI to see if we can work out maybe some hearings on some of the subjects I did in Commerce that I think would also fit within the jurisdiction of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations,” McCaskill told us. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, chairs PSI.