Final rule: Promoting Fair and Open Competitive Bidding in the E-Rate Program; Schools and Libraries Universal Service Support Mechanism
Agencies: Federal Communications Commission — In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission or FCC) takes action to reinforce the success and integrity of the E-Rate program by establishing a competitive bidding portal and document repository to strengthen the E-Rate program's competitive bidding rules as well as other actions to simplify and streamline program processes and procedures for E-Rate participants. In addition, the Commission adopts changes to streamline and simplify the E-Rate program while maintaining the integrity of the program and grant an Order on Reconsideration. These actions will provide greater transparency into the applicants' competitive bidding and bid evaluation and selection processes, and protect the program against waste, fraud, and abuse…
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Voices on this issue
Independent voices from different starting points, on the record about this kind of action. The framework grades behavior, not party — these quotes come from people who would say the same thing under any administration.
From the right
“The first job of an opposition party in a free country is to win elections fairly. The first job of a governing party is to lose them gracefully when the time comes. Both are non-negotiable.”
Mona Charen
Conservative columnist; author of 'Sex Matters' and former speechwriter in the Reagan administration.
From Charen's essay 'What Are We Conserving?' The Bulwark, 'What Are We Conserving?'