Eshoo Urges Support for FCC Consolidated Reporting Act in Markup Opening Statement
One senior House Democrat planned to speak highly of the FCC Consolidated Reporting Act at the full House Commerce Committee markup for HR-734. Lawmakers were scheduled to deliver markup opening statements at 5 p.m. Wednesday and to reconvene to vote…
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at 10 a.m. Thursday in 2123 Rayburn. The House Communications Subcommittee unanimously cleared the bill last week. “As amended during the Subcommittee’s recent markup, H.R. 734 would streamline Congressionally-mandated reporting requirements under a single, industry-wide report while providing two important clarifications,” said Communications Subcommittee ranking member Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., according to the written statement. “First, in our effort to consolidate reporting requirements, the legislation clarifies that the FCC’s [Telecommunications Act Section] ‘706’ Report does not in any way impact or alter the explicit grant of broadband authority that the court affirmed in the Verizon case last year. Second, the legislation preserves the FCC’s obligation to examine how retransmission consent fees impact a consumer’s monthly bill.” Eshoo, Communications Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., and Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., had introduced the bill together. The bill has passed the House before but never advanced in the Senate.