House Appropriations To Mark Up FCC Funding Bill; Pallone, Eshoo Slam 'Dangerous' Underfunding
The House Appropriations Committee will mark up the Financial Services appropriations bill 10 a.m. Wednesday in 2359 Rayburn. The proposal, which would cut FCC funding by about $25 million in FY 2016, cleared its subcommittee last week with many partisan…
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objections (see 1506110046). The FCC had requested more than $70 million more than House appropriators are proposing. Two senior House Commerce Committee Democrats slammed the proposed GOP cuts to the FCC budget for FY 2016. “Instead of listening to the will of the people, Republican appropriators are playing politics with the FCC's budget and dangerously underfunding this critical agency,” said House Commerce Committee ranking member Frank Pallone, D-N.J., and Communications Subcommittee ranking member Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., in a joint statement last week. “This is yet another attempt by House Republicans to delay policies they do not support, and it is an irresponsible way to govern.” They pointed to broad support for net neutrality protections. The House appropriations proposal includes multiple riders on net neutrality.