HOUSE CHAIRMAN OPPOSES ENDING TELECOM DEVELOPMENT FUND

摘要

Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y., plans to fight the proposed elimination of the FCC's Telecommunications Development Fund. In the fiscal 2011 budget, President Barack Obama proposed to end the fund. Towns, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman, was an important supporter of the fund's creation in 1996. "The chairman is concerned about the budget cut but plans to work with his colleagues on the budget committee to prevent a full cut of this program," a spokesman said. The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council has opposed dropping the program. The Congressional Black Caucus, which has supported the fund, declined to comment.