Cybersecurity Hearing Postponed

The Senate Commerce Committee has had to postpone this week's hearing on cybersecurity and the private sector.

The hearing had been slated for Tuesday, March 29, but Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) will be in West Virginia for the funeral of M. Blane Mitchell, a judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (which includes West Virginia) and a close friend and former counsel to the Senator during Rockefeller's first term as governor of the state.

A spokesperson for the committee said no new date has been set, but that with the issue a priority for the committee and its chairman, it would be ASAP.

John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.