House Panel Announces BEAD Hearing Witness List

WASHINGTON, September 7, 2024 – House Republicans plan to put the Biden administration's top broadband funding program under a microscope Tuesday, but no one representing the White House is scheduled to testify.

House BEAD Witness List and Memo

WITNESSES • Misty Ann Giles, Director and Chief Operating Officer, Montana Department of Administration • Basil Alwan, Chief Executive Officer, Tarana Wireless • Shirely Bloomfield, Chief Executive Officer, NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association • Blair Levin, Policy Analyst, New Street Research; Non-Resident Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Project, Brookings Institution

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The House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology is holding the hearing mainly to amplify Republican concerns about the Commerce Department's management of the $44.45 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program.

In July, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and  Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Bob Latta, R-Oh., opened an investigation into the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's handling of state BEAD plans.