C&T Subcommittee Markup

Energy and Commerce: House Committee · January 16, 2026

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Opening remarks by subcommittee chair

Announcement

11:03 → 11:35(32s)

The subcommittee chair opened the markup, framing it as a bipartisan effort to improve public-safety communications. He listed priorities including upgrading 911 call centers, improving wireless emergency alerting, and outage reporting, and introduced the Next Generation 9-1-1 initiative to be considered in the markup.

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A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee advanced a package of bipartisan public-safety communications bills, including measures to fund Next Generation 9-1-1 upgrades, expand emergency alert delivery via satellite, and clarify NTIA oversight of FirstNet. Several bills were adopted by voice vote and forwarded to the full committee.

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