The Senate was notified by “hotline” Tuesday afternoon that a bipartisan bill to provide...
The Senate was notified by “hotline” Tuesday afternoon that a bipartisan bill to provide each FCC commissioner’s office an electrical engineer or computer scientist (S-2881) was set for unanimous consent passage unless a senator objected. The hotline deadline had not…
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been reached at our deadline. The bill was sponsored by Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and is similar to HR-4809 by Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Calif. The Congressional Budget Office in April said the Senate bill would cost $7 million from 2011 to 2015 (CD April 9 p6).