Senate Commerce Committee Hearing To Include Incentive Auction Bill

A May 3 Senate Commerce Committee hearing will focus on federal investments in natural disaster preparedness and the government's plans for response. Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) also signaled it would involve his Public Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act which would authorize incentive auctions as a way to help pay for a national, interoperable broadband emergency communications network Rockefeller has been pushing for some time now. His and other legislators have been pushing for passage of an emergency communications bill before the tenth anniversary of 9/11.