A Progress Report on the House Commerce Committee

Here's a progress report on the House Commerce Committee's key activities in the first nine months of 2011.

The third quarter report was provided to committee members and the House Republican leadership, exactly nine months after Speaker John Boehner gaveled the 112th Congress into session. The report outlines the committee’s jobs-focused accomplishments with nearly 100 hearings and 24 bills that preserve American jobs, bolster the economy, and protect individual freedoms. The third quarter report includes summaries of the key issues being addressed by each of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s six subcommittees.

• The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), continued to lead an aggressive review of how to reform the Federal Communications Commission -- considered in tandem with steps to advance spectrum reform -- in an effort to promote an innovation economy. In response to GOP oversight and calls for action, the FCC also announced the elimination of the so-called Fairness Doctrine and 82 other obsolete rules.
• The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), began a comprehensive review of trends in online privacy and data security.