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HRES 57 113th Congress House 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

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".

Introduced: February 6, 2013 Introduced by: Latta, Robert E. Republican · Ohio See on congress.gov
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Became law
Feb 8, 2013
Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
Feb 6, 2013
Introduced in House
Feb 6, 2013
Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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.

What's happening now February 8, 2013

Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.

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