Senate To Hold Hearing On Shutdown

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Whenever the government boots back up, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D- W.Va.) wants to gauge the damage done to the economy.

The Commerce Committee Friday announced it would hold a hearing Oct. 11 on "The Impacts of the Government Shutdown on Our Economic Security." There have been various estimates from the floor of the House and Senate on how much it will cost, from $300 million per day to somewhere in the billions.

The hearing time has not yet been scheduled.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.