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Pelosi Seeks Fines for Security Rule Violators: Inaugural Update Bloomberg 1/14/2021 Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is seeking to impose fines of as much as $10,000 for representatives who violate new security screening rules. Oklahoma lawmakers and their staffs are being told to stay away from the state capitol building in Oklahoma City over potential protests. Washington is temporarily shutting some subway stations near the Capitol to deter travel while security is on high alert. Pelosi Seeks Fines for Security Scanning Violations (8:40 p.m.) Hous...

Trump Issues Emergency Declaration for Event: Inaugural Update Bloomberg 1/12/2021 Ryan Teague Beckwith © Bloomberg Members of the National Guard stand behind a fence outside of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 11. (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump has approved an emergency declaration for the District of Columbia. Facebook says it is banning the phrase ‘Stop the Steal’ from its platforms due to its use by Trump supporters advocating violence. The House transportation chairman wants to fine disruptive passengers on flights. Trump Approves Eme...

March 21, 2021 | 1:43 pm EDT by Shelly Palmer Shelly Palmer: “Whenever I’m asked about the fate of the television business, I always answer, ‘As goes the next NFL deal, so goes TV.’ Well, as everyone with even the slightest interest in the subject already knows, the NFL/TV deal is done—but times have changed. The NFL deal makes it very clear that it is time for the FCC to think seriously about reclaiming the spectrum gifted to the local broadcast industry. It is also time for Congress to craft policies that not only respect the state of today’s technology but aspire to leverage t...

April 1, 2021 | 3:13 pm EDT by Scott R. Flick Few rules in the Code of Federal Regulations have as tortured a history as 47 CFR § 73.3555 — the broadcast multiple ownership rules. The subject of court decisions too numerous to count, a brief review of FCC decisions revising (or deciding not to revise) these rules reveals a twisted mass of logic and rationales where parties fiercely argue even as to the very reason for their existence. Today, the Supreme Court released a  unanimous decision reversing the Third Circuit’s ruling involving three ownership rules, noting simply that the FCC...