FCC Issues Congressional Appropriations Shutdown Plan Just Before Short-Term Funding House OK
In a government shutdown, the FCC as usual would largely be shuttered, the agency said hours before the House passed 235-192 a short-term continuing resolution Thursday to fund the federal government through Dec. 22. The Senate was expected to vote…
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on the resolution after our deadline. All FCC employees would report to work the first business day after any lapse in appropriations and spend no more than four hours in shutdown activities including securing their work areas and locking up materials, canceling travel plans and scheduled training, internal and external meetings and FCC-sponsored events and putting out-of-office messages on email and voicemail, said the plan. It said of 1,492 employees, the five commissioners will be retained since their compensation doesn't come from annual appropriations that lapse, and up to 227 other employees would be retained because they support spectrum auction-related activities or are otherwise involved in oversight or protection of life or property or are performing international and treaty-related activity. It said a variety of IT contractors and others also will be retained, including 85 IT contractors needed to support auction-related activities.