Topic: Rep. Anna Eshoo
A cybersecurity bill written to defend the nation's businesses against cyberattacks is headed for a House vote this week over the protests of Internet privacy advocates and some Democrats. Although opponents…
File this one under "It makes sense, so why isn't it the law already?" department. A bipartisan group of lawmakers in both the House and the Senate are reintroducing a…
Those annoying ear-splitting commercials that come out of nowhere are now officially against the law. The rules governing implementation of the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (CALM) Act went into…
The House communications and technology subcommittee held a hearing today to make sure that the Federal Communications Commission is “on track” to implement the world’s most complex auction of wireless spectrum. Congressional…
As the Federal Trade Commission moves closer to a decision about whether it will pull the trigger on its two antitrust investigations of Google, some Congressional leaders are coming to…
The Federal Communications Commission, the independent agency in charge of regulating the fast-moving communications industry, took a beating from a number of lawmakers about its own poor communications. Lawmakers from…
It's finally beginning to sink in in Washington that the pending auction of spectrum voluntarily relinquished by TV broadcasters may hardly make a dent in the looming shortage of wireless…
A group of 42 members of Congress, mostly Democrats, are urging the payroll tax cut conference committee to let the Federal Communications Commission make available more unlicensed spectrum, a key…
Try as they might, House Democrats couldn't get the bipartisan spectrum bill they wanted. In a 17-6 vote, a Republican bill to free up more spectrum for wireless use and…
Democrats were powerless to stop two bills that would reform the Federal Communications Commission's procedures and merger reviews from advancing in the GOP-controlled House. In a party line vote taken…
