The Senate Judiciary Committee postponed consideration of the...
The Senate Judiciary Committee postponed consideration of the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act reauthorization bill (S-2454), as expected (CD June 19 p15). Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and ranking member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, introduced a two-page clean reauthorization bill…
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earlier this month. It was on the Judiciary agenda for its executive business meeting Thursday. Consideration of STELA “is going to be held over,” Leahy said at the meeting’s outset. In that committee, any member can delay consideration of new business by a week. “At our next meeting, that bill will be up for a vote,” Leahy said. “I can safely say both on behalf of Senator Grassley and myself, that’s something we hope to move quickly through the Senate.” Later that day, Judiciary announced an executive business meeting for Thursday at 9:30 a.m. in 226 Dirksen. No agenda was released, but a Judiciary aide confirmed to us that STELA is expected to be on it. In his written statement for the session (http://1.usa.gov/1lEMgWM), Leahy had pointed to the importance of swiftly moving what he called “a bipartisan, non-controversial STELA reauthorization” through the Senate. Lobbyists and observers still await STELA bills from the Senate Commerce Committee and House Judiciary Committee. The House Commerce Committee advanced a bill earlier this year.