Thune: E-rate Hot Spots CRA Unlikely to Get Senate Vote This Week
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told us Monday night that he is unlikely to bring up for floor action this week a Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval (S.J.Res. 7) to undo the FCC's July 2024 order allowing schools and libraries to use E-rate support for off-premises Wi-Fi hot spots and wireless internet services. Reports circulated Friday that Senate leaders were eyeing floor action as soon as this week on S.J.Res. 7. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz of Texas and 12 other panel Republicans filed the CRA measure in late January.
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“We're doing” two other non-telecom CRA measures this week, led by Sens. John Hoeven, R-N.D., and John Kennedy, R-La., Thune said. “We haven't made any immediate decisions” on when other CRA measures might come to the floor. Thune acknowledged that Cruz has several CRA measures “teed up” and expects S.J.Res. 7 to eventually get a floor vote. A vote on the motion to proceed to Kennedy's CRA measure (S.J.Res. 11) was expected around noon Tuesday.