Public safety communications could come up at a Sept. 13...
Public safety communications could come up at a Sept. 13 hearing of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, a committee spokeswoman told us Friday. The hearing is about the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and will focus on what has been accomplished…
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and what still needs to be done on homeland security, the spokeswoman said. “It is entirely possible that public safety communications will come up,” because committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., “cares deeply about that issue, and clearly that is an issue we have not mastered yet,” she said. Lieberman supports reallocating the 700 MHz D-block to public safety, and voiced disappointment that reallocation wasn’t included in the debt ceiling package (CD Aug 3 p13). “I think he probably would like to see public safety communications become a part of the overall legislative package” compiled by the joint select committee on deficit reduction, the committee spokeswoman said. Scheduled witnesses for the hearing are Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, FBI Director Robert Mueller and National Counterterrorism Center Director Matthew Olsen. The hearing is to begin at 10 a.m. in Room 342, Dirksen Senate Office Building.