Much of Official Washington Including Regulatory, Other Agencies Closed Wednesday
Much of official Washington is closed Wednesday in honor of late President George H.W. Bush, 94, whose state funeral is scheduled for 11 a.m. that day at the National Cathedral. The Copyright Office, FTC and NTIA will be closed, spokespeople…
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told us, as will the FCC. Filings at the FTC and FCC won't be due Wednesday and now must be submitted Thursday. Dec. 5 won't "count in computing filing periods of less than seven days," said an FCC public notice. Items on commissioners' Dec. 12 meeting agenda can be lobbied on through Thursday, 24 more hours than under the usual sunshine period. The CO online registration system will remain available, its spokesperson said. Neither chamber of Congress will hold hearings for at least some of this week, and some votes may not occur. Among hearings that were scheduled before Bush's death and now postponed: Google CEO Sundar Pichai Wednesday at the House Judiciary Committee, and one of its subcommittees Tuesday with the heads of the FTC and DOJ Antitrust Division. Thursday's House Communications Subcommittee hearing on the Ray Baum Act law is rescheduled for Dec. 11. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is closed Wednesday, the clerk's office said. President Donald Trump ordered federal "executive departments and agencies" closed that day. Their heads "may determine that certain offices and installations of their organizations, or parts thereof, must remain open and that certain employees must report for duty," Saturday's executive order said, "for reasons of national security, defense, or other public need." Wednesday's FCC Technological Advisory Council gathering was postponed. The Technology Policy Institute won't hold Wednesday's lunch event on privacy. The International Institute of Space Law emailed that its annual Galloway space law event goes on as planned Wednesday other than NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine canceling his keynote.