[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5020 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5020

  To require the Federal Communications Commission to extend the time 
 period for filing petitions to deny, oppositions, and comments in the 
     proceeding relating to the proposed merger of Comcast and NBC 
                               Universal.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 14, 2010

 Ms. Waters (for herself, Ms. Speier, Mr. Ellison, Ms. Richardson, Ms. 
 Watson, Mr. Meeks of New York, Mr. Al Green of Texas, Ms. Clarke, Mr. 
 Bishop of Georgia, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. 
Watt, Mr. Payne, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. Conyers, 
Ms. Fudge, Ms. Woolsey, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. Rangel, Mr. Frank of 
Massachusetts, Mr. Towns, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. Pierluisi, Mr. Reyes, Mr. 
 Honda, Mr. Pastor of Arizona, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Cummings, Mr. Moran of 
Virginia, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Garamendi, Ms. Corrine Brown of Florida, 
    Ms. Edwards of Maryland, Mr. Jackson of Illinois, Ms. Moore of 
Wisconsin, Mr. Doggett, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Farr, Mr. Clay, Mr. Hastings 
 of Florida, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Stark, Mr. 
 Capuano, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Filner, Mr. Delahunt, Mrs. Napolitano, and 
Ms. Loretta Sanchez of California) introduced the following bill; which 
          was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the Federal Communications Commission to extend the time 
 period for filing petitions to deny, oppositions, and comments in the 
     proceeding relating to the proposed merger of Comcast and NBC 
                               Universal.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FCC REQUIRED TO EXTEND COMMENT PERIOD.

    The Federal Communications Commission shall extend for 45 days the 
time period for filing petitions to deny, oppositions, and comments in 
the proceeding relating to the proposed merger of Comcast and NBC 
Universal entitled ``Applications of Comcast Corporation, General 
Electric Company, and NBC Universal, Inc., to Assign and Transfer 
Control of FCC Licenses'' (Docket 10-56). Such extension shall--
            (1) permit petitions to deny, oppositions, and comments on 
        or before June 17, 2010;
            (2) permit responses to petitions to deny, oppositions, and 
        comments on or before July, 16, 2010; and
            (3) permit replies to such responses on or before August 1, 
        2010.
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