Commissioners Get Schedule for FCC Meetings through January
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has set FCC agenda meeting dates through Jan. 15, 2009, likely the end of his tenure. The FCC website does not carry dates for future meetings and Martin said recently that he does not plan to publish dates beforehand (CD May 28 p1). Dates, set based on feedback from other commissioners, have been passed along to other members, agency sources said Monday.
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The schedule includes two hearings in July, one serving as that month’s agenda meeting -- a July 29 en banc event. To occur at Barnard College in New York City, the hearing will address capital formation and minority ownership of media and perhaps other regulated industries. A week before on July 22, a hearing on network management and net neutrality will occur at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
In August, often a month when commissioners and staff vacation, Martin agreed to meet weeks earlier than proposed in a preliminary schedule - Aug. 1, three days after the Barnard hearing. After August, the FCC next meets Sept. 25, nearly two months later, with an agenda meeting or field hearing expected on Oct. 30.
Nov. 4, Election Day, is the next tentative meeting, then Dec. 18. Martin’s likely final meeting as chairman is set for Jan. 15, with the next president taking office Jan. 20. Sources note that the FCC schedule could change.
Details on Martin’s Asian trip surfaced Monday courtesy of the FCC. He will attend the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ministerial meeting on “Future of the Internet Economy” in Seoul, Korea. After that meeting, which starts Tuesday, Martin leaves for Beijing, China, and a bilateral meeting with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, an FCC spokesman said.