Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 1343) to codify the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences and to direct the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to establish an initiative to support the development of emergency communication and tracking technologies, and for other purposes. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 1343 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Institute for Telecommunication Sciences Codification Act'' or the ``ITS Codification Act''. SEC. 2. INSTITUTE FOR TELECOMMUNICATION SCIENCES. (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following: (1) The test center within the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (in this subsection referred to as the ``NTIA'') represents executive branch agencies on spectrum issues before the Federal Communications Commission. (2) Understanding radio frequency propagation characteristics and modeling is a critical component of making spectrum decisions. (3) Federal agencies rely on expert engineering studies, simulations, and analyses to make determinations about how to make spectrum available for commercial use, including through system relocations and identifying spectrum sharing opportunities through the NTIA.…”