House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Ranking Member Frank Pallone Jr., (D-NJ), Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Ranking Member Mike Doyle (D-PA), announced today that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will be holding a hearing with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the coming weeks. The hearing will provide an opportunity for in-depth discussion of public safety communications and provide the subcommittee an opportunity to receive an update from the FCC on its investigation into the recent false emergency alert event in Hawaii.
“A reliable and strong communications service can save lives during a disaster, but the public needs to be able to trust that the emergency alert they receive is legitimate. We need to make sure that a mistake like what happened in Hawaii never happens again. The upcoming hearing will be an important opportunity to hear from the commissioners as they continue to investigate the incident," said Walden, Pallone, Blackburn, and Doyle.
