I agree with John's summary of how it works. If you want to see the current Senate version go to www.senate.gov
On the right you will see a link for active legislation. Under the popular titles you can see the current version plus the amendments. The combined House/Senate version is what matters and the conference committee report (merged bills) can't be written until the Senate passes its version. >From everything I read though there will be a bias towards projects that can be started within 45 days of the passage of the legislation. So have your projects engineered and ready or if you don't want any in your region then make sure NTIA and RUS know that you already provide advanced services. I kind of doubt anyone in the nation provides what they have in mind for fiber broadband speeds. The House version called for fiber networks to provide 45mb down 15 mb up and the Senate version calls 100mb down and 20mb up. For wireless the House calls for 3 mb down and 1 mb up. Senate says 3 mb down and 768 k up. Steve Smith Chase 3000 -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of John Scrivner Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 10:50 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Senate to cut Rural Broadband from Stimulus Bill! 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
