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Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 7:05
AM
Subject: Re: [isp-wireless] USF fund
reform
Hi,
I can give you the names of some supportive members of Congress and some
bill names. Below I'll copy a list of members on the two committees. When
calling legislators people could just say what their key interest is, for
example, that they support expansion of USF to broadband.
The Senate side is more promising, but not as straightforward - lots of
bills. The House side is less promising for moving a bill forward on
USF.
Let's start with the House where USF supporters are representatives
Boucher (D-VA) and Terry (R-NE). Their bill is the Universal Service
Reform Act of 2006. The difficulty in the House is that the Chairman of the
House committee, Joe Barton, does not like USF. He and members of this
committee could use some calls with your input.
The Senate is different. USF has wide support on the Commerce Committee.
Its chairman, Ted Stevens (R-AK), is a big supporter of USF and expansion to
broadband. Other committee members supporting USF include Senators Burns
(R-MT), Lott (R-MI), Dorgan (D-ND), Snowe (R-ME), Rockefeller (D-WV), and
Pryor (D-AR). Two of the bills in the Senate involving USF are:
the Universal Service for the 21st Century Act, S
1583, introduced by Senators Smith, Dorgan and Pryor,
and the Internet and Universal Service Act of 2006, S
2256, introduced by Senator Burns.
Here's the testimony we gave at the recent Senate hearing on USF
distributions:
http://www.freepress.net/docs/Scott_USF_testimony.pdf
Hope some of this is helpful and I send apologies that it's not more
concise - we were working until 4:30am last night and my brain's a little
fried. I've pasted below a list of Senate Commerce Committee members and
another list of House Energy and Commerce Committee members.
Best,
Frannie
Senate Commerce Committee Members:
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/committees.tt?commid=scomm
* Ted Stevens - Alaska
(Chairman)
Hart 522
202-224-3004
* Daniel K. Inouye - Hawaii
(Ranking Member)
Hart 722
202-224-3934
* John McCain -
Arizona
Russell 241
202-224-2235
* Conrad Burns -
Montana
Dirksen 187
202-224-2644
* Trent Lott -
Mississippi
Russell 487
202-224-6253
* Kay Bailey Hutchison -
Texas
Russell 284
202-224-5922
* Olympia Snowe -
Maine
Russell 154
202-224-5344
* Gordon Smith -
Oregon
Russell 404
202-224-3753
* John Ensign -
Nevada
Russell 364
202-224-6244
* George Allen -
Virginia
Russell 204
202-224-4024
* John Sununu - New
Hampshire
Russell 111
202-224-2841
* Jim DeMint - South
Carolina
Russell 340
202-224-6121
* David Vitter - Louisiana
Hart
516 202-224-4623
* John D. Rockefeller IV - West
Virginia
Hart 531
202-224-6472
* John F. Kerry -
Massachussetts
Russell 304
202-224-2742
* Byron L. Dorgan - North
Dakota
Hart 322
202-224-2551
* Barbara Boxer -
California
Hart 112
202-224-3553
* Bill Nelson -
Florida
Hart 716
202-224-5274
* Maria Cantwell -
Washington
Hart 717
202-224-3441
* Frank Lautenberg - New
Jersey
Hart 324
202-224-3224
* E. Benjamin Nelson -
Nebraska
Hart 720
202-224-6551
* Mark Pryor - Arkansas
Russell
217 202-224-2353
House Energy and Commerce Committee
Members:
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/committees.tt?commid=hcomm
Joe Barton, Texas
Chairman
John D. Dingell, Michigan
Ranking Member
Ralph M. Hall, Texas
Michael
Bilirakis, Florida
Vice Chairman
Fred Upton,
Michigan
Cliff Stearns, Florida
Paul E. Gillmor,
Ohio
Nathan Deal, Georgia
Ed Whitfield, Kentucky
Charlie
Norwood, Georgia
Barbara Cubin, Wyoming
John Shimkus,
Illinois
Heather Wilson, New Mexico
John B. Shadegg,
Arizona
Charles "Chip" Pickering, Mississippi
Vice
Chairman
Vito Fossella, New York
Roy Blunt, Missouri
Steve Buyer,
Indiana
George Radanovich, California
Charles F. Bass, New
Hampshire
Joseph R. Pitts, Pennsylvania
Mary Bono,
California
Greg Walden, Oregon
Lee Terry, Nebraska
Mike
Ferguson, New Jersey
Mike Rogers, Michigan
C.L. "Butch" Otter,
Idaho
Sue Myrick, North Carolina
John Sullivan,
Oklahoma
Tim Murphy, Pennsylvania
Michael Burgess,
Texas
Marsha Blackburn,
Tennessee
Henry A.
Waxman, California
Edward J. Markey, Massachusetts
Rick Boucher,
Virginia
Edolphus Towns, New York
Frank Pallone Jr., New
Jersey
Sherrod Brown, Ohio
Bart Gordon, Tennessee
Bobby
L. Rush, Illinois
Anna G. Eshoo, California
Bart Stupak,
Michigan
Eliot L. Engel, New York
Albert R. Wynn,
Maryland
Gene Green, Texas
Ted Strickland, Ohio
Diana
DeGette, Colorado
Lois Capps, California
Mike Doyle,
Pennsylvania
Tom Allen, Maine
Jim Davis, Florida
Jan
Schakowsky, Illinois
Hilda L. Solis, California
Charles A.
Gonzalez, Texas
Jay Inslee, Washington
Tammy Baldwin,
Wisconsin
Mike Ross, Arkansas
At 11:29 AM -0800 3/30/06, Marlon K. Schafer \(509\) 982-2181
wrote:
I've cc'd Frannie Wellings. She'd know
the answers to your questions far better than I
would.
laters,
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Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 9:18
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Subject: Re: [isp-wireless] USF fund reform
At 5:19 PM -0800 3/29/06, Marlon K.
Schafer \(509\) 982-2181 sent email regarding Re: [isp-wireless] USF fund
reform:
Now we're cookin' with gas! Great
stuff, thanks. If we get past the initial contact with congress
I'll use as much of that as I can. Maybe if it comes down to brass tacks
you and I can work closer on these ideas? (not yet, might not need them
and I don't have time for what if's.....)
Also, I think you may
misunderstand one thing. We're NOT working with the FCC on this
right now. Right now congress has said very clearly that they are
GOING to change USF. They have asked, out right asked, for ideas
on how to change the programs. THAT's what WISPA is working on
with these documents.
Do you have names of the people on the
committee? Who, exactly, is working on this? Does this initiative have a
formal name by which we can refer to it when contacting our own
congressmen?
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