Executive Session Summary
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held an executive session and favorably reported out the following legislation and nominations:
Chairman Rockefeller Remarks on Today’s Executive Session
WASHINGTON, D.C.—I want to briefly summarize the bills and accepted amendments, before the committee today.
Chairman Rockefeller’s Statement on STELA Becoming Law
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, issued the following statement after President Obama signed the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act of 2010 (STELA, S. 3333) into law:
Hearing Summary – Innovation and Inclusion: The Americans with Disabilities Act at 20
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a Communications, Technology, and the Internet Subcommittee hearing today entitled Innovation and Inclusion: The Americans with Disabilities Act At 20.
Chairman Rockefeller Remarks on Innovation and Inclusion: The Americans with Disabilities Act at 20
WASHINGTON, D.C.—This summer we celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Chairmen Announce Process to Update Communications Act
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, Rep. Henry A. Waxman, the Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Senator John F. Kerry, the Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, and Rep. Rick Boucher, the Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet announced they will start a process to develop proposals to update the Communications Act.
Chairmen Rockefeller & Waxman Urge FCC to Protect Broadband Consumers and Implement the Broad Objectives of the National Broadband Plan
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Chairman John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV and House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry A. Waxman sent a letter to Julius Genachowski, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), on the recent opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Comcast Corporation v. Federal Communications Commission.
Hearing Summary: Reviewing the National Broadband Plan
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a full committee hearing today to review the National Broadband Plan.
Chairman Rockefeller Remarks on Reviewing the National Broadband Plan
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Broadband is more than a technology—it is a platform for social and economic opportunity.
MUST READ OPED: Now Is the Time to Prepare for Cyberwar
WASHINGTON, D.C.—“If the nation went to war today in a cyberwar, we would lose. We’re the most vulnerable. We’re the most connected. We have the most to lose.”