Universal Service Fund contributions would be permanently exempted from the...
Universal Service Fund contributions would be permanently exempted from the Antideficiency Act under a bill (S-297) introduced this week by Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va. The Civil War-era law was meant to prevent the government from taking in…
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money without stating a reason. Extending the exemption has been an annual tradition since the GAO in 2005 ruled that the older act applied to the Universal Service Fund. It was last extended, through 2011, in December’s Continuing Resolution (CD Dec 22 p8).