Don’t let the Satellite Television Extension and Localism...

Don’t let the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act reauthorization process get bogged down, one observer warned. Americans for Limited Government Vice President-Public Policy and Communications Rick Manning in a blog post in The Hill (http://bit.ly/1jRvJdc) Wednesday argued for a narrow bill to allow easy passage, given a congressional calendar year growing ever shorter. “A clean bill, without controversial amendments, would very likely pass before Congress adjourns, but amendments being considered by retiring Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) could serve as poison pills to the whole process,” Manning said. Industry lobbyists have told us Senate Commerce is cobbling together its STELA extension draft now and that many options may be on the table. “We may be close,” Senate Communications Subcommittee ranking member Roger Wicker, R-Miss., told us Wednesday at the Capitol of that committee’s STELA draft.