US Congress House Resolution 175 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on March 16 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-06-01 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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) reforming the Universal Service Fund and encouraging broadband deployment in rural unserved and underserved areas through public-private partnerships; (3) making additional spectrum available for commercial use through unencumbered auctions; (4) 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; (5) reforming our patent and trademark system to protect leading innovators' intellectual property; and (6) ensuring individual privacy without compromising market efficiencies.

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".

Rep. Robert Latta [R-OH]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-06-01	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet.
2011-03-21	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
2011-03-16	House	Referred to House Judiciary
2011-03-16	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2011-03-16	House	Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-resolution/175/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hres175/BILLS-112hres175ih.pdf