Work Continues Toward the #CommActUpdate

Although Congress may not be in session this month, our work continues full speed ahead. As part of our ongoing outreach, committee staff recently commenced bipartisan listening sessions with segments of the communications and technology industry and other stakeholder groups.

These meetings provide our bipartisan staffs an opportunity to dive deeper on specific topics and better understand the issues facing the modern communications marketplace. We are interested in pursuing pro-innovation policies that reflect our evolving economy. It is important to have a firm grip on how our laws impact consumers, job creators, and the market as a whole, and hear directly what ideas are worth pursuing as well as identifying potential landmines to avoid. Listening sessions provide an opportunity to round out the information we’ve already received from our previous hearings and the white paper series. We look forward to moving forward in a bipartisan and productive manner. We will continue gathering information via listening sessions, white papers, staff and member outreach, and direct contact with our constituents. October, and the remaining months of the year provide an important window to prepare as we gear up to legislate next Congress.