Joe Barton: “with the Cardoza amendment, the Congress expresses its support for efforts like the $1 billion interoperability program…”

“with the Cardoza amendment, the Congress expresses its support for efforts like the $1 billion interoperability program to be implemented by NTIA. The House Energy and Commerce Committee is deeply concerned about the ongoing inability of our first responders to communicate with each other in times of emergency. This public safety interoperability problem has gone on for far too long, which is why the Energy and Commerce Committee is playing a stronger leadership role in setting the policy direction through its communications jurisdiction. Our Committee authored a section in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 that set a final date for the DTV transition that will transfer 24 MHz of spectrum to public safety.”