Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that in order to continue aggressive growth in the Nation's telecommunications and technology industries, the United States Government should "Get Out of the Way and Stay Out of the Way".
Latest action · Feb 8, 2013 Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
Progress
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- IntroducedFeb 6, 2013
- Agreed to in HouseNot reached
Summary
Declares that it is the sense of the House of Representatives that, in order to continue aggressive growth in the nation's telecommunications and technology industries, the U.S. government should "Get Out of the Way and Stay Out of the Way" by: (1) promoting investment through deregulation and free-market competition; (2) making additional spectrum available for commercial use through unencumbered auctions, reallocation of federal spectrum, and efficient spectrum sharing; (3) establishing a national goal of transmitting high-quality, real-time voice, data, graphics, and video at increasingly higher speeds to all people in the United States, especially in rural and underserved areas; (4) ensuring individual privacy without compromising market efficiencies; and (5) promoting cyber threat sharing for allowing the private sector to actively defend their communications networks.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 8, 2013Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
- Feb 6, 2013Introduced in House
- Feb 6, 2013Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies
- Business investment and capital
- Competition and antitrust
- Computer security and identity theft
- Computers and information technology
- Internet and video services
- Internet, web applications, social media
- Public contracts and procurement
- Right of privacy
- Rural conditions and development
- Science, Technology, Communications
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 6, 2013Introduced in House
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