Broadband Mapping Markup in the House?

The House Commerce Committee's telecom subcommittee will soon move to mark up legislation to improve the government’s mapping of broadband data, which lawmakers have long complained is riddled with errors. And the panel will likely use the Broadband DATA Act, H.R. 4229, from Rep. Dave Loebsack (D-Iowa), as the base. “I think the Loebsack bill will be the vehicle it runs through,” Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) said. “But I think we’re going to be taking bits and pieces of the other bills, too.”

“We can’t have a system at the [Federal Communications Commission] when it comes to mapping where it’s garbage in and garbage out, because that’s what it is,” Rep Loebsack said. Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), the top Republican on Doyle’s panel and a backer of the Broadband DATA Act, said, “This is something we can get done.”