FCC Decisions Implicated in Rider Showdown

It may or may not come to a showdown during the week of Dec 7 over Federal Communications Commission-related riders on bills being worked on and into an omnibus appropriations bill that needs to pass to keep the government open. A budget bill passed in October, but the omnibus specifies what that total will be spent on, including for agencies like the FCC. There is a Dec 11 deadline for appropriating the money or the government runs out of funds, though it it likely that a short continuing resolution will be passed -- say a week or so -- to avert a shutdown at allow them to continue to work on a bill.

According to reports, the FCC appropriations bills submitted during the week of Nov 30 by House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) would include the FCC-related amendments added by Republicans to the FCC appropriation bills.