http://techliberation.com/2006/12/14/what-should-mcdowell-do/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:51:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://techliberation.com/2006/12/14/what-should-mcdowell-do/comment-page-1/#comment-36410 Patrick Ross Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:51:58 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/12/14/what-should-mcdowell-do/#comment-36410 <p>On the Hill, as you know, Hance, if a committee has secondary referral on a bill, they have only so long to act on it and that's it. DoJ has already approved this, and as the ones performing the antitrust review I'd equate them with the committee of first referral. The FCC, with its dangerously imprecise public interest standard, would be the committee of secondary referral. We need a rule where if the FCC doesn't act on any merger after X date then it is automatically approved.</p> On the Hill, as you know, Hance, if a committee has secondary referral on a bill, they have only so long to act on it and that’s it. DoJ has already approved this, and as the ones performing the antitrust review I’d equate them with the committee of first referral. The FCC, with its dangerously imprecise public interest standard, would be the committee of secondary referral. We need a rule where if the FCC doesn’t act on any merger after X date then it is automatically approved.

]]> http://techliberation.com/2006/12/14/what-should-mcdowell-do/comment-page-1/#comment-49238 Patrick Ross Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:51:58 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/12/14/what-should-mcdowell-do/#comment-49238 <p>On the Hill, as you know, Hance, if a committee has secondary referral on a bill, they have only so long to act on it and that's it. DoJ has already approved this, and as the ones performing the antitrust review I'd equate them with the committee of first referral. The FCC, with its dangerously imprecise public interest standard, would be the committee of secondary referral. We need a rule where if the FCC doesn't act on any merger after X date then it is automatically approved.</p> On the Hill, as you know, Hance, if a committee has secondary referral on a bill, they have only so long to act on it and that’s it. DoJ has already approved this, and as the ones performing the antitrust review I’d equate them with the committee of first referral. The FCC, with its dangerously imprecise public interest standard, would be the committee of secondary referral. We need a rule where if the FCC doesn’t act on any merger after X date then it is automatically approved.

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