Opening statements for House Commerce Committee markup of the...
Opening statements for House Commerce Committee markup of the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act reauthorization draft and the Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters (DOTCOM) Act begin Wednesday at 4 p.m. in 2123 Rayburn, said a committee news release…
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Monday night (http://1.usa.gov/1lT8oww). The markup vote on the bills begins Thursday at 10 a.m. in the same room, it said. The STELA draft cleared the subcommittee with some tension remaining between Republicans and Democrats. They haven’t reached complete consensus on the STELA draft and are trying to hash out a compromise on the TV station joint sharing agreements provision this week, industry lobbyists told us. The DOTCOM Act (HR-4342) seeks to delay NTIA’s transition proposal of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority until a study is done by the GAO (CD April 11 p2). House Communications Subcommittee members John Shimkus, R-Ill., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., are co-sponsors of that bill, which passed the subcommittee in a markup vote along party lines last month.