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Subcommittee Markup of 6 Bills
Members direct NTIA to develop a coordinated national broadband strategy and update FCC maps using USDA cropland data to better serve rural and agricultural areas, advance BEAD implementation, avoid overbuilding, and conclude the markup with passage of both bills and adjournment.
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Subcommittee Markup of 6 Bills
Sponsors describe AI’s dual-use implications for telecom and public safety networks, expand NTIA’s mandated study through an amendment covering emergency alerting and AI safeguards, and secure passage of the amended bill by voice vote.
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Subcommittee Markup of 6 Bills
Members document the scale and consumer harm of overseas scam robocalls, justify a new interagency task force and stronger traceback tools, and then adopt H.R. 6152 by voice vote.
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Subcommittee Markup of 6 Bills
The subcommittee quickly advances the Satellite and Telecommunications Streamlining Act and then debates and adopts the GUARD Act targeting national security risks from advanced Chinese robotics and empowering FCC list-based restrictions.
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Subcommittee Markup of 6 Bills
Chair and ranking members outline the markup agenda of six bipartisan telecom bills, framing core objectives around secure and affordable connectivity, AI and robotics risks, foreign robocalls, satellite licensing, and improved broadband deployment and mapping.
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Legislative Hearing on Protecting Communications Networks and Improving Connectivity
The chair enters documents into the record, sets deadlines for additional written questions from members, and formally adjourns the subcommittee hearing.
Legislative Hearing on Protecting Communications Networks and Improving Connectivity
Members press witnesses on traceback speed, DOJ resource gaps, and FCC robocall mitigation rules; examine how the GUARD Act and allied coordination could foster domestic robotics capacity; explore a national broadband strategy, agricultural connectivity and data integration via the DATA Bridge Act; probe AI-enabled scams, affordability and the ACP funding cliff; and assess proactive covered-list use and long-term sustainability of federally supported rural broadband networks.
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Legislative Hearing on Protecting Communications Networks and Improving Connectivity
Subcommittee and full committee leaders question witnesses on criminal enforcement against robocallers, AI analytics for call blocking, minimum AI and software security baselines for critical infrastructure, and how the FCC should apply and coordinate the Secure and Trusted framework and GUARD Act to emerging PRC robotics and network threats.
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Legislative Hearing on Protecting Communications Networks and Improving Connectivity
Expert witnesses present on national security threats from PRC-subsidized drones and robotics, enforcement-centered strategies against illegal robocalls, GAO findings on fragmented federal broadband programs and mapping gaps, and AI-driven cyber risks amid US–PRC technological competition and emerging 6G networks.
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Legislative Hearing on Protecting Communications Networks and Improving Connectivity
Leadership outlines the hearing’s focus on illegal robocalls, broadband deployment and mapping, Universal Service Fund reform, AI security, and the proposed GUARD Act to address PRC-linked robotics as part of the broader Secure and Trusted communications framework.
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Oversight of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration
The final segment focuses on NTIA’s role in public safety communications, potential NG911 use of BEAD non‑deployment funds, codifying an NTIA public safety office, and concerns over children’s screen time in schools, before returning to BEAD permitting reforms, treatment of so‑called “savings,” low‑cost option requirements, and members’ closing invitations for Roth to defend BEAD’s benefit‑of‑the‑bargain approach and outline remaining implementation challenges.
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Oversight of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Questioning intensifies over whether NTIA’s BEAD restructuring favors LEO satellite over fiber, how performance standards, cost caps and transparency will work in practice, and the consequences for specific states, tribal areas and rural communities, while members also probe supply‑chain dependence on China, mapping harmonization, and delayed guidance on over $20B in non‑deployment funds and benefit‑of‑the‑bargain re‑planning; Democrats further challenge NTIA over cancelled Digital Equity Act grants, affordability protections, and the interaction of BEAD terms with state low‑cost, net‑neutrality and anti‑redlining laws.
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Oversight of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Members begin questioning on timelines and statutory limits for BEAD non‑deployment funds, NG911 eligibility, and NTIA’s stance on state laws and AI, then move to NTIA’s 500 MHz spectrum pipeline work, spectrum relocation obstacles, and preparations for WRC27 and ITU leadership amid competition with China.
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Oversight of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Committee and subcommittee leaders frame the oversight hearing by outlining NTIA’s statutory role, major spectrum and broadband programs, partisan disagreements on BEAD restructuring and digital equity, and Administrator Roth presents her priorities on spectrum pipeline development, BEAD reforms, FirstNet oversight, and children’s screen time issues.
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