House Republican Targets Lifeline Program's Wireless Components
Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga., introduced another bill seeking to curb the FCC Lifeline program. He filed HR-5525 Thursday, which would “prohibit universal service support of commercial mobile service and commercial mobile data service through the Lifeline program.” The bill’s one…
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co-sponsor is Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions, R-Texas, and it’s referred to the Commerce Committee. Democrats had rebelled against Scott’s Lifeline budget cap legislation earlier this year, which cleared the Communications Subcommittee but never the full Commerce Committee (see 1604190053).