Rep Pallone Gets Support For Auction Rules Revamp

House Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone (D-NJ) says he has five supporters for his bill, the Small Business Access to Spectrum Act of 2015, that would instruct the Federal Communications Commission to update its designated entity rules to give small business better access to spectrum for the upcoming broadcast incentive auction. The supporters are Democratic committee members Reps Bobby Rush (D-IL), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), G.K. Butterfield (D-NC), Doris Matsui (D-CA) and Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM). The bill is only two pages and simply says the FCC needs to update the auction rules, without saying how.