FCC Chairman Defends Budget Request

On June 9, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski testified before the House Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government Appropriations on the agency's budget. On October 15, Chairman Genachowski sent answers to follow-up questions from the hearing.

Questions cover the National Broadband Plan, freeing spectrum now reserved for television for wireless broadband, digital literacy initiatives for small businesses, broadband deployment in US territories like Puerto Rico, the proposed Emergency Response Interoperability Center, hiring new staff, cybersecurity, broadcast television retransmission consent, broadband reclassification, and much more.