The Senate Commerce Committee will include the FCC...
The Senate Commerce Committee will include the FCC Consolidated Reporting Act (S-1379) among the 15 bills it intends to consider at its executive session Wednesday (http://1.usa.gov/1q141hN), it said Thursday. The bill, introduced by Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., mirrors a bill…
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of the same name (HR-2844) that passed the House unanimously in September (CD Sept 11 p18). The bill calls for the FCC to produce one consolidated Communications Marketplace Report -- rather than the current eight separate reports -- and kills outdated references. Senate Commerce Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., has previously said he would not consider S-1379. Not on the committee’s agenda is the Transparency in Assertion of Patents Act (S-2049), which would extend the FTC’s authority to regulate patent assertion entities’ use of pre-litigation demand letters. The bill appeared to be on the fast track to Senate Commerce consideration when Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., introduced it in late February, but the committee has since twice postponed its planned markup of the bill (CD March 17 p6). The committee meeting is to begin at 2:30 p.m. in 253 Russell.