Last week, it seemed like there might finally be some movement on Congress' long-delayed plans to pass a bill authorizing a spectrum auction, as news leaked that the House Energy & Commerce Committee would schedule a mark up of a bill as soon as Tuesday of this week. Now it looks like that was wishful thinking.
Instead of conducting a mark up, on Tuesday afternoon Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., who chairs the relevant subcommittee, put out the kind of boilerplate statement that, translated, essentially means there's been little movement: "For five months, we have been negotiating in earnest to find common ground on spectrum reform .
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