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Copyright © 1999, Congressional Information
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99 CIS H 27154
TITLE:
Reauthorization of the Federal Communications Commission
CIS-NO:
99-H271-54
SOURCE: Committee on Commerce. House
DOC-TYPE:
Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: Mar. 17, 1999
LENGTH:
iii+127 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1019-A-01; 1019-B-01
SUDOC: Y4.C73/8:106-13
MC-ENTRY-NO: 99-18819
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 106-13. Hearing
before the Subcom on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection to
examine issues relating to FCC present and future roles in regulating the
telecommunications industry, in connection with passage of the
Telecommunications Act of 1996 and upcoming FCC
reauthorization.
Supplementary material (p. 114-127) includes
witnesses' written replies to Subcom questions.
CONTENT-NOTATION: FCC programs, regulatory issues
review
DESCRIPTORS:
SUBCOM
ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TRADE, AND CONSUMER PROTECTION. HOUSE; FEDERAL
COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION; TELECOMMUNICATION REGULATION; TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT
99-H271-54 TESTIMONY NO: 1 Mar. 17, 1999 p. 21-40
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
HUBER,
PETER W. (attorney)
STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION:
Views on telecommunications regulation, with criticism of
FCC regulatory approach as not applicable to current developments in the
telecommunications industry.
CONTENT NOTATION:
FCC programs, regulatory issues review
99-H271-54 TESTIMONY NO: 2 Mar. 17, 1999 p.
41-127
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
KENNARD, WILLIAM E. (Chairman, FCC)
NESS, SUSAN P.
FURCHTGOTT-ROTH,
HAROLD W.
POWELL, MICHAEL K.
TRISTANI, GLORIA (all four Commissioners, FCC)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Review of issues and
initiatives relating to FCC future role in a fully competitive
telecommunications market (related graphs, p. 55-61); issues involved in FCC
regulation of telecommunications industry; elaboration on telecommunications
policy issues.
CONTENT NOTATION:
FCC
programs, regulatory issues review
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
COMPETITION; STATISTICAL DATA: COMMUNICATIONS AND
TRANSPORTATION 
