Blackburn Floats Draft FCC Reauthorization Bill Ahead of Oversight Hearing
House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., released a draft FCC reauthorization bill Tuesday night that would in part freeze funding at $322 million. That's an $18 million drop from the FCC's existing $340 million funding level but corresponds with…
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what the White House and the House Appropriations Committee proposed for funding in FY 2018 (see 1705230041 and 1707140056). The bill also would institute several GOP-sought FCC process reforms, including requiring the commission to enter a rulemaking to codify Chairman Ajit Pai's pilot project to make draft agenda items public three weeks before commissioners' meetings (see 1702020051). Blackburn is likely to discuss the draft during House Communications' planned FCC oversight hearing, two communications sector lobbyists told us. The subcommittee confirmed the hearing will be July 25, as expected (see 1707180041). The hearing will begin at 10 a.m. in 2123 Rayburn.