I believe this is a move that is happening to make the House and Senate bills more closely aligned. Steve Coran also stated similar thoughts regarding this move. The House bill had $6 Billion for broadband. The Senate package allocated $9 Billion. Once both bills pass they must go to Committee for a new version to be voted on by both House and Senate. Clearly the dollar amounts must "meet in the middle" which means that the Senate ir proactively getting their borabdand dollar amounts in line with what has already passed the House. I know it is comfusing but creating new laws is something that is a little tough on purpose so as to stop knee-jerk legislative actions, or at least I think that is the reason behind the convoluted steps created by the process. Some of my high school civics lessons are beginning to float up through the fog that is my poor abused brain. :-) Scriv
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 7:55 AM, St. Louis Broadband <li...@stlbroadband.com>wrote: > "The Senate agreement pared from the bill $20 billion for school > construction, $2 billion to expand broadband access in rural areas, $3.5 > billion to make federal buildings more energy efficient and $200 million > for > NASA. It also reduced a proposed subsidy that would allow the jobless to > buy > health insurance through their former employers." > > http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=adnIDRZKZQJw&refer=us > > This is NOT good. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
