House Communications to Vote on Restoring FCC Auction Authority Through June 30, Permitting Bills
The House Communications Subcommittee plans to vote Wednesday on a new proposal from Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., to temporarily restore the FCC’s spectrum auction authority through June 30, plus 27 bills aimed at eliminating communications deployment permitting…
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barriers, the panel said Monday. Rodgers’ legislation comes two months after the FCC’s mandate expired amid a Senate impasse (see 2303090074) over her House-passed bill to renew the authority through May 19 (HR-1108) and an alternative extending it through Sept. 30 (S-650). All four FCC commissioners and other communications policy stakeholders renewed their push for Congress to resurrect the remit (see 2304190069). House Communications members during an April hearing divided along party lines on the Winning the International Race for Economic Leadership and Expanding Service to Support Leadership Act (HR-3279) and the other 26 other bills on the Wednesday markup. The markup session will begin at 1 p.m. or 30 minutes after a Wednesday House Commerce Health Subcommittee meeting ends, whichever is later, in 2123 Rayburn.