[opendtv] Re: News: Ex-9/11 Commissioners Want Spectrum
- From: "John Willkie" <JohnWillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 21:07:04 -0700
these guys have outlived their "usefulness" (two committee members and at
least one staffer should have been testifying before the commision under
oath and not taking money from the effort) and are trying to extend their
period of being largely unuseful after the report was released.
They're mad that Congress and the President didn't adopt their
recommendations wholesale. One of their suggestions that was adopted -- a
new intelligence czar -- is purely a joke. When has adding a new layer of
bureaucrats solved ANYTHING?
John Willkie
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From: "Craig Birkmaier" <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 6:23 AM
Subject: [opendtv] News: Ex-9/11 Commissioners Want Spectrum
>
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6256971.html?display=Breaking+News&referral=SUPP
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> Breaking News
>
> Ex-9/11 Commissioners Want Spectrum
>
> By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 9/14/2005 2:37:00 PM
>
>
> Ten former members of the 9/11 commission Wednesday called on
> Congress to set a hard date for the return of analog spectrum.
>
> In a press conference in Washington, the 10, now part of the 9/11
> Public Discourse Project, released a report urging action on various
> fronts, including getting the spectrum back from broadcasters for
> first responders like fireman and cops.
>
> Broadcasters have committed to a 2009 date for returning the analog
> spectrum and switching to all-digital broadcasting.
>
> Senator John McCain, who is now pushing for a hard date of Jan. 1,
> 2007, quoted the project's chairman former New Jersey governor Tom
> Kean, on the Senate floor Tuesday as saying continued
> interoperability problems are "outrageous. It's a scandal and I think
> it cost lives."
>
> A group of high-tech companies, Cisco and Microsoft among them,
> praised the ex-commissioners' stand on spectrum.
>
> "The High Tech DTV Coalition agrees with the conclusions drawn today
> that reallocating the 700 MHz spectrum for emergency public safety
> communications is critical unfinished business for our country," said
> Janice Obuchowski, executive director of the High Tech DTV Coalition.
>
> The House and Senate Commerce Committees are preparing to consider
> legislation setting a hard date (probably sometime in early to mid
> 2009), and McCain has also introduced a bill, the SAVE LIVES Act,
> that would set a hard date. Initially his date was Jan. 1, 2009, but
> in the wake of hurricane Katrina he wants to push it up to 2007.
>
>
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