House Commerce Approves FCC Consolidated Reporting Act
The House Commerce Committee signed off on the FCC Consolidated Reporting Act (HR-734) Thursday by voice vote. “This good government legislation reduces the reporting workload and increases efficiency at the FCC by consolidating eight separate congressionally mandated reports on the…
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communications industry into a single comprehensive report,” Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., said in his opening statement Wednesday. “This streamlined report will give us important information about competition among technology platforms and the deployment of communications technologies to unserved communities.” House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., Communications Subcommittee ranking member Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., and Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., backed the bill. Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., introduced the Senate companion (S-253) last month. The House passed the bill last Congress but it never advanced in the Senate.