House Commerce Committee's Fall Agenda

House Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) announced highlights of the Committee’s pro-jobs, pro-growth agenda for the fall.

• Subcommittee on Communications and Technology: Broadband and wireless spectrum policy are vital jobs issues and spectrum legislation and FCC process reform will be at the forefront to advance wireless broadband, promote deployment of an interoperable broadband public safety network, create jobs, and reduce the deficit. The economic impact of streamlined regulations can be significant - in the last decade, the wireless industry has invested more than $240 billion on network structures and equipment. Combine the growing need for wireless broadband deployment with the private sector's resources, and the industry is ripe for job seekers.
• Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade: With new technologies leaving consumers uncertain about how their personal information is collected and maintained online, privacy will continue to be a top priority for the subcommittee. Among areas of concern include consumer knowledge of online data collection and opportunities to control what information is obtained and maintained; aggregation and anonymization of individually identifiable information; the role of data collection to improve the online user experience and provide free online content; the ability to mitigate unwanted marketing and other targeted outreach or rejection of services based on an individual’s online profile; and the competitive consequences of different foreign privacy regimes for American firms.