{"id":9916,"date":"2025-06-04T22:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T22:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/lawmakers-zero-in-on-spectrum-auction-deal-rounds-says\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T22:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T22:48:10","slug":"lawmakers-zero-in-on-spectrum-auction-deal-rounds-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/lawmakers-zero-in-on-spectrum-auction-deal-rounds-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers zero in on spectrum auction deal, Rounds says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Lawmakers seem to have reached a breakthrough over language for a spectrum provision in the GOP\u2019s tax and spending megabill, Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/221844\" data-person-id=\"221844\">Mike Rounds<\/a> (R-S.D.) told Blue Light News Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The House proposal aimed to open up 600 MHz of spectrum for commercial use, alarming national security hawks, who <a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.politicopro.com\/article\/2025\/05\/senior-gop-senators-balk-at-houses-88b-spectrum-plan-00345310\" target=\"_blank\">warned that it would<\/a> encroach on important military and intelligence frequencies. Rounds, a senior Senate Armed Services Committee member who was among those who pushed back, said on Wednesday that, per this emerging agreement, key spectrum bands would be protected from the auctions through 2034.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s looking better than it has in the past, and I think we\u2019re going to be able to get everything that we had concerns with,\u201d he said, cautioning that the deal was still pending. \u201cFinal paper I have not seen, but it looks good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked earlier Wednesday about <a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.politicopro.com\/newsletter\/2025\/06\/lutnick-to-defend-trumps-budget-on-the-hill-00384248\" target=\"_blank\">Rounds\u2019 threats a day earlier to vote against<\/a> legislation that doesn\u2019t address his spectrum concerns, Senate Commerce Chair <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/175665\" data-person-id=\"175665\">Ted Cruz<\/a> (R-Texas) said, \u201cI am confident we\u2019ll get it done.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers seem to have reached a breakthrough over language for a spectrum provision in the GOP\u2019s tax and spending megabill, Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) told Blue Light News Wednesday. The House proposal aimed to open up 600 MHz of spectrum for commercial use, alarming national security hawks, who warned that it would encroach on important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}