Senate Commerce Sets Wednesday O'Rielly Vote; Subpanel Plans Spectrum Hearing
The Senate Commerce Committee plans a vote Wednesday on FCC Commissioner Mike O’Rielly’s renomination to a new term and a July 23 hearing on the FCC and NTIA roles in spectrum policymaking (see 2007150070). President Donald Trump nominated O’Rielly in…
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March to a new term ending in 2024 (see 2003180070). A Senate Commerce vote on O’Rielly had been expected before the end of July (see 2007130054). O’Rielly’s confirmation hearing was last month (see 2006160062). Commerce will also vote on confirming Commerce Department acting General Counsel Michael Walsh, the Fundamentally Understanding the Usability and Realistic Evolution of Artificial Intelligence (Future of AI) Act (S-3771) and Advancing AI Research Act (S-3891). S-3771, first filed in 2017 (see 1712120051), would direct the Commerce Department to establish a Federal Advisory Committee on the Development and Implementation of Artificial Intelligence to “provide advice” on AI. S-3891 would establish a National Institute of Standards and Technology AI research program and other research institutes focused on AI. The executive session begins at 10 a.m. in G50 Dirksen, the committee said. New America’s Open Technology Institute Wireless Future Project Director Michael Calabrese and CTIA General Counsel Tom Power are among those to testify at the Communications Subcommittee’s July 23 spectrum hearing, the committee said. Also to appear are CommScope Director-Business Development Mark Gibson and Aalborg University Visiting Researcher Roslyn Layton, an American Enterprise Institute visiting scholar. That hearing will begin at 10 a.m. in 253 Russell.