Funding for distance learning in rural areas was included in an a...
Funding for distance learning in rural areas was included in an amendment to the Senate Appropriations Committee bill approved July 12. The amendment, offered by Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, would exempt Universal Service Fund subsidies for rural schools and…
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health clinics from accounting rules under the Anti-Deficiency Act. The amendment also would prohibit the FCC from spending to carry out the primary line restriction proposed by the Joint Board on Universal Service. The underlying bill would give the FCC $313 million for fiscal 2008, $21.7 million more than the previous year, to “improve oversight over the rapidly changing telecommunications industry.” Funding is nearly the same in the bill that the House passed June 28 (CD June 27 p1).