No Telecom Rewrite in 113th Congress, says House Commerce Minority Chief Counsel

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There will not be a rewrite of the 1996 Telecom Act "this year or next year," said Roger Sherman,nthe House Commerce Committee Democratic chief counsel, during an event Monday hosted by the PractisingnLaw Institute. He said partisan divisions are a chief hurdle to achieving broad telecom reform:n"Nothing is going to happen that is not bipartisan," he said. The 2014 reauthorization of the Satellite TelevisionnExtension and Localism Act (STELA) could present "some opportunities" for piecemeal legislativenfixes to current telecom law, he said. "But that is dangerous and could become bogged down. We don'tnwant to bog something down that can get through."