National Telecommunications and Information Administration Authorization

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Excerpt from National Telecommunications and Information Administration Authorization: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Communications of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, March 1, 1994 The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:10 a.m., in room SR-253 of the Russell Senate Office Building, Hon. Daniel K. Inouye (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Staff members assigned to this hearing: John D. Windhausen, Jr., senior counsel, and Kevin M. Joseph, professional staff member, and Regina M. Keeney, minority senior counsel, and Mary P. McManus, minority professional staff member. Opening Statement of Senator Inouye Senator Inouye. The committee will come to order. Now we will consider the reauthorization of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, NTIA, of the Department of Commerce. The bill I will introduce today reauthorizes funding for NTIA. The Public Communications Facilities Program, PSAT, and the Children's Endowment Fund. In addition, the bill includes authorizing language for the administration's Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure Assistance Program. The THAP is one of the components of Vice President Gore's national information infrastructure initiative. The proposed THAP will fund demonstration projects of new telecommunications technologies that improve distance learning and the delivery of health care and social services. On behalf of the committee I applaud the administration for suggesting this initiative, and I am looking forward to working with the administration to ensure that this program is funded. Traditionally, NTIA has served as the principal advisor to the President for communications policy. NTIA's role has become more prominent in recent years as the development of the telecommunications industry has become more integral to our country's economic growth. Consequently, NTIA plays a larger role within the administration's plan for the economy and the formulation of policy and the growth of our economy than at any time in its brief history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.