House Spectrum Bill Seen as Cutting Deficit Less Than Senate Alternative

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House Republicans’ spectrum legislation probably would reduce the deficit more than a bill napproved by the Senate Commerce Committee, Stifel Nicolaus said. “The House draft would npresumably contribute more to deficit reduction because of its proposed D block auction n(projected in the past to raise around $3 billion) and the absence so far of the $12 billion in npublic-safety network funding, as proposed in the Senate bill, but we would expect some sort nof compromise on those issues,” the analyst firm said. If CBO says S-911 won’t achieve at nleast $10 billion in deficit reduction, “we believe the bill would have to be modified to win nRepublican support,” it said.