Senate Commerce Committee Chmn. Stevens (R-Alaska) will support l...
Senate Commerce Committee Chmn. Stevens (R-Alaska) will support legislation (S-241) Sen. Snowe (R-Me.) introduced Tues. that would make permanent the universal service fund’s exemption from the Anti-Deficiency Act (ADA). Congress near the end of last session enacted a year’s…
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moratorium on application of the ADA to USF. The FCC announced last year that it would have to apply ADA accounting rules to USF, which would have disrupted E-rate payments. Stevens is a co-sponsor of the legislation, along with Senate Commerce Committee ranking Democrat Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Sen. Rockefeller (D-W.Va.). OPASTCO urged Congress to support the bill because: “The sooner USF is made permanently ineligible to ADA requirements, the sooner we will have certainty that schools and libraries, rural health care providers, low-income consumers and consumers in high-cost areas will have continued access to quality telecommunications and broadband services.”