3/13. President Bush gave a radio address on March 13, 2004, and a speech in Cleveland, Ohio on March 10 in which he addressed trade issues. He advocated free trade, and argued that protectionism threatens jobs. However, he did not expressly mention outsourcing.

He stated in his weekly radio address that "Some politicians in Washington see this new challenge, and they want to respond in old, ineffective ways. They want to increase federal taxes -- yet punishing families and small businesses is not a job-creation strategy. They want to build up trade walls, and isolate America from the rest of the world -- but economic isolationism would threaten the millions of good American jobs that depend on exports. These tired, old policies of tax and spend, and economic isolationism, are a recipe for economic disaster. There's a better way to help our workers and help our economy."

Bush continued that "we must pursue a confident policy of trade. Millions of American jobs depend on our goods being sold overseas; and foreign-owned companies employ millions of Americans here at home. We owe those workers our best efforts to make sure other nations open up their markets, and keep them open. We want the entire world to buy American, because the best products in the world carry the label, ``Made in the USA.´´"

President Bush provided more detail on March 10 when he spoke at an event titled "Women's Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century Forum" in the city of Cleveland.

He stated that the "politicians in Washington" who want to "to increase federal taxes, to build a wall around this country ... don't explain how closing off markets, closing off markets abroad would help the millions of Americans who produce goods for export, or work for foreign companies right here in the United States."

"The old policy of economic isolationism is a recipe for economic disaster. America has moved beyond that tired, defeatist mind-set, and we're not going back. There's a better way, and that's what I want to talk about today. To expand the creation of new jobs, and to see our workers through our transition, government must meet basic responsibilities", said Bush.

Bush argued that "instead of building barriers to trade, we must break down those barriers so that good products, American products, are welcomed and sold on every continent. Look at it this way: America has got 5 percent of the world's population. That means 95 percent of potential customers are in other countries. We cannot expect to sell our goods and services, and create jobs, if America and our partners, trading partners, start raising barriers and closing off markets."

"The surest way to add more jobs is a confident policy, a confident economic policy that trades with the world", said Bush. "The economic isolationists have a pessimistic outlook; they don't show much faith in the American worker or the American entrepreneur. They don't think we can compete."

Bush also said that "politicians in Washington attack trade for political reasons", but he did not identify any of these politicians by name.

Bush argued that instead of adopting protectionist policies, the U.S. should pursue other policies to promote job growth. He cited tax cuts, tort reform and ending frivolous lawsuits against doctors and hospitals.

He said that "To create more jobs, government must meet a second basic responsibility. If we want to continue to out-perform the world, if we want to be able to compete, America must remain the best place in the world to do business. If we want to be competitive with other places, we've got to be a good place for people to invest capital. We've got to make sure that people who invest capital are not penalized by lousy government policy. Tax cuts were vital to creating the environment for growth and innovation, and there are more steps that need to be done."

"In order to make sure that we're able to create jobs here at home, and to prevent jobs from going overseas, this country must have tort reform. Frivolous lawsuits, or the threat of a frivolous lawsuit, create an environment that is not conducive to job creation and job expansion. There's a role at the federal level for tort reform. The trial lawyers are tough up there, though. Members of the Senate need to hear from you. The House has passed good tort legislation, but the Senate has got to hear from you. Tort reform will help make it easier to keep jobs here at home."

The House passed HR 1115, the "Class Action Fairness Act", by a vote of 253-170 on June 12, 2003. See, Roll Call No. 272. On October 22, 2003, the Senate rejected a motion to invoke cloture on S 1751, the "Class Action Fairness Act of 2003", by a vote of 59-39. See, Roll Call No. 403.

Finally, he said that "We need to do something about the high cost of health care, as well. I'm a strong proponent of association health plans to allow small business to pool risk so you can better afford health care plans for your employees. We've introduced a new concept called health savings accounts, which will make a big difference for small business owners and employees, as well. And the market has taken hold. We ought to -- listen, frivolous lawsuits are running up the cost of health care in America. Frivolous lawsuits against docs and hospitals are making it harder for you to be able to afford health care. We need medical liability reform at the federal level now."

3/11. Alan Greenspan, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, testified at a House Education and Workforce Committee hearing titled "The Changing Nature of the Economy: The Critical Roles of Education and Innovation in Creating Jobs & Opportunity in a Knowledge Economy". He stated that while outsourcing is creating "palpable unease", the U.S. should pursue policies of free trade and "vigorous engagement in the global economy".

He concluded that "We can erect walls to foreign trade and even discourage job-displacing innovation. The pace of competition would surely slow, and tensions might appear to ease. But only for a short while. Our standard of living would soon begin to stagnate and perhaps even decline as a consequence. Time and again through our history, we have discovered that attempting merely to preserve the comfortable features of the present, rather than reaching for new levels of prosperity, is a sure path to stagnation."

He also said that "a new round of protectionist steps is being proposed. These alleged cures would make matters worse rather than better. They would do little to create jobs; and if foreigners were to retaliate, we would surely lose jobs. Besides enhancing education, we need to further open markets here and abroad to allow our workers to compete effectively in the global marketplace."

Greenspan said that recently "concerns have arisen about the possibility that an increasing number of our better-paying white-collar jobs will be lost to outsourcing, especially to India and China. Many of these jobs are in the service sector, and they were previously perceived as secure and largely free from the international competition long faced in the manufacturing sector. There is a palpable unease that businesses and jobs are being drained from the United States, with potentially adverse long-run implications for employment and the standard of living of the average American. Job insecurity is understandably significant when nearly two million members of our workforce have been unemployed for more than six months."

But, he argued that "our economy is best served by full and vigorous engagement in the global economy."

He noted that "Over the long sweep of American generations and waves of economic change, we simply have not experienced a net drain of jobs to advancing technology or to other nations. Since the end of World War II, for example, the unemployment rate in the United States has averaged less than 6 percent with no apparent trend; and as recently as 2000, it dipped below 4 percent." He added that "real earnings of the average worker have continued to rise."

The discussed, with approval, the theory of Joseph Schumpeter know as creative destruction, or "the continuous scrapping of old technologies to make way for the new". Greenspan said that "Standards of living rise because the cash flows of industries employing older, increasingly obsolescent, technologies are marshaled, along with new savings, to finance the production of capital assets that almost always embody cutting-edge technologies. Workers migrate with the capital. This is the process by which wealth is created, incremental step by incremental step."

He continued that "The process of creative destruction has been accompanied by an ever-growing conceptualization of economic output. Ideas rather than materials or physical brawn have been by far the greatest contributors during the past half-century to our average annual increase of 3-1/4 percent in real gross domestic product."

He argued against protectionist policies, but in favor of education. He stated that "One area in which educational investments appear to have paid off is our community colleges."

The Committee also heard for a second panel of witnesses. See, prepared testimony of John Castellani (Business Roundtable), Robert Grady (Carlyle Group and National Venture Capital Association), and Jared Bernstein (Economic Policy Institute).

3/11. The House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property (CIIP) held a hearing titled "Section 115 of the Copyright Act: In Need of Update?". 17 U.S.C. § 115 pertains to compulsory licensing.

Marybeth Peters (at right), the Register of Copyrights, wrote in her prepared testimony [29 pages in PDF] that "the means to create and provide music to the public has changed radically in the last decade, necessitating changes in the law to protect the rights of copyright owners while at the same time balancing the needs of the users in a digital world."

Jonathan Potter, the Executive Director of the Digital Media Association, wrote in his prepared testimony that "Royalty-paying online services are precisely the type of new music market that Congress intends to promote; and the Section 115 compulsory mechanical license could and should be playing an important role in building online music services with broad catalogs and the ability to compete with online black markets. Unfortunately, Section 115 is not very useful to online services, because (i) the licensing process is unworkable for digital music services; and (ii) its ambiguous scope causes uncertainty, risk, and excessive double-dip royalty payments."

He argued that Section 115 is "dysfunctional" and that "It is time for Congress to provide for today’s online music environment the same rights it provided in 1909, 1976, and what this industry needs -- a compulsory mechanical license that relieves legal risk to well-intended royalty-paying services, that promotes new markets for music, and assures royalty payments to songwriters."

Carey Ramos, of the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA), wrote in his prepared testimony [10 pages in PDF] that Section 115 "is not in need of legislative change".

Cary Sherman, the President of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), wrote in his prepared testimony that "We are working hard to lure customers back through a range of exciting new consumer product and service offerings", including multisession discs, computers and players that are preloaded with music that consumers can unlock on a per tune basis or as part of a subscription service, and downloads and physical products with digital rights management systems that allow users to make a limited number of personal use copies.

Sherman continued that "It is important that mechanical licenses be as available for these new offerings as they always have been for more traditional offerings. Toward that end, we have tried hard to work with publishers to keep them abreast of these offerings and work out any issues. However, disagreements concerning the application of the Section 115 license, and the inflexibility of the per-unit statutory royalty set for a 10 year period (in contrast to a percentage royalty) are impeding the introduction of these offerings in the U.S."

3/12. MCI WorldCom announced in a release that its has reached "a settlement with the state of Oklahoma in which criminal charges filed against the company last year will be dropped". Carol Ann Petren, MCI WorldCom Deputy General Counsel, states in this release that "In exchange for dropping the charges against the company, MCI agreed to add 1,600 jobs over the next 10 years at its Tulsa facility ..." Tulsa is in Oklahoma. Oklahoma charges MCI WorldCom by criminal complaint [PDF] on August 27, 2003. See, story titled "Oklahoma Files Criminal Charges Against MCI WorldCom" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 728, August 28, 2003.

3/10. The House Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet held a hearing titled "Oversight of the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act". See, prepared testimony of witnesses: David Moskowitz (Echostar Communications), Robert Lee (on behalf of the National Association of Broadcasters), Matthew Polka (American Cable Association), Gene Kimmelman (Consumers Union), Martin Franks (CBS Television), and Eddy Hartenstein (Hughes Electronics Corporation).

3/10. The House Ways and Means Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight and Subcommittee on Social Security held a joint hearing titled "Social Security Number and Individual Taxpayer Identification Number Mismatches and Misuse". See, prepared testimony of witnesses: Mark Everson (Internal Revenue Service), James Lockhart (Social Security Administration), Michael Brostek (General Accounting Office), Pamela Gardiner (Department of the Treasury), Nina Olson (Internal Revenue Service), and Patrick O'Carroll (Social Security Administration).

3/15. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) published in its web site the USTR Trade Advisory Committee Reports on the U.S. Australia Free Trade Agreement (FTA). See especially, report [8 pages in PDF] of the Industry Functional Advisory Committee on Electronic Commerce (IFAC-4), report [22 pages in PDF] of the Industry Functional Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights for Trade Policy Matters (IFAC-3), report [9 pages in PDF] by the Industry Sector Advisory Committee on Electronics and Instrumentation for Trade Policy Matters (ISAC 5), and the report [20 pages in PDF] of the Industry Sector Advisory Committee on Services for Trade Policy Matters (ISAC 13), which addresses telecommunications.

3/15. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announced that a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel ruled that Mexico's current regime for international telecommunications violates Mexico's WTO obligations. For example, the panel found that Mexico breached its commitment to ensure that U.S. carriers can connect their international calls to Mexico's major supplier, Telmex, at cost-based rates. See, USTR release.

The House will meet at 12:30 PM for morning hour, and at 2:00 PM for legislative business. It will consider several non technology related items under suspension of the rules. Votes will be postponed until 6:30 PM. See, Republican Whip Notice.

8:30 AM - 5:00 PM. Day one of a three day meeting of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB). See, notice in the Federal Register, March 8, 2004, Vol. 69, No. 45, at Pages 10677 - 10678. Location: Hyatt Regency Hotel Bethesda, 7400 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, MD.

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM. The DC Bar Association will host a continuing legal education (CLE) program titled "Electronic Discovery and Evidence in Government Contract Litigation". Prices vary. For more information, call 202 626-3488. Location: DC Bar Conference Center, 1250 H St., NW, B-1 Level.

9:00 AM. The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) North American Numbering Council will meet. See, notice in the Federal Register, February 13, 2004, Vol. 69, No. 30, at Pages 7224 - 7225. Location: FCC, 445 12th Street, SW, Commission Meeting Room (Room TW-C305).

12:30 - 2:00 PM. The Advisory Committee to the Congressional Internet Caucus will host an event titled "VoIP: Why is it not your parents' Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS)?" The speakers will be Blair Levin (Legg Mason), Rick Cimmerman (National Cable & Telecommunications Association), Tom Evslin (ITXC Corporation), Lincoln Hoewing (Verizon) and Bob Nelson (NARUC). Lunch will be served. RSVP to rsvp@netcaucus.org or 202 638-4370. Location: Room B-339, Rayburn Building, Capitol Hill.

RESCHEDULED AGAIN. 1:00 PM. The House Government Reform Committee's Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census will hold an oversight hearing titled "Information Security in the Federal Government: One Year Into the Federal Information Security Management Act". The witnesses will be Paul Corts (Assistant Attorney General for Administration, Department of Justice), Karen Evans (Administrator for E-Government and IT, Office of Management and Budget), Robert Dacey (General Accounting Office), Ellis Merschoff (CIO, Nuclear Regulatory Commission), Patrick Pizzella (Department of Labor), Jeffrey Rush (Department of the Treasury), and Hratch Semerjian (National Institute of Standards and Technology). Press contact: Box Dix at 202 225-6751. This hearing was orignally scheduled for March 10; it was rescheduled for March 17; and then, it was rescheduled for March 16. Location: Room 2203, Rayburn Building.

The House will meet at 1:00 PM for legislative business. See, Republican Whip Notice.

8:30 AM - 3:30 PM. The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) will host a conference titled "National Software Summit: Workshop on the Software Workforce". See, notice. For more information, contact Eerik Kreek at ekreek@itaa.org. Location: George Mason University, Arlington Campus.

8:30 AM - 5:00 PM. Day two of a three day meeting of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB). See, notice in the Federal Register, March 8, 2004, Vol. 69, No. 45, at Pages 10677 - 10678. Location: Hyatt Regency Hotel Bethesda, 7400 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, MD.

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM. The Cellular Telecom and Internet Association (CTIA) and the Rural Cellular Association (RCA) will host a day long conference titled "Local Number Portability: Small Carrier Best Practices Forum". See, agenda and registration form. Prices vary. For more information contact Vanessa Ortiz at vortiz@ctia.org or 202 736-3677, or Lori Messing at lmessing@ctia.org. Location: St. Regis Hotel.

10:00 AM. The House Government Reform Committee's Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations will hold a hearing titled "U.S. Preparation for the World Radio Conferences: Too Little, Too Late?" The witness will be Jeffrey Shane (Department of Transportation), William Readdy (National Aeronautic and Space Administration), Michael Gallagher (acting Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration), Kathleen Abernathy (Federal Communications Commission), David Gross (Department of State), Linton Wells (Department of Defense), James Schlesinger (Center for Strategic and International Studies), John Bryant (U.S. Ambassador to 1997 World Radio Conference), Gail Schoettler (U.S. Ambassador to 2000 World Radio Conference Janice Obuchowski (U.S. Ambassador to 2003 World Radio Conference). See, notice. Press contact: Bob Briggs at 202 225-2548. Location: Room 2154, Rayburn Building.

10:00 AM. The House Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing on HR 3880, the "Internet Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act". Press contact: David Marin or Drew Crockett (202) 225-5074. Location: Room 2154, Rayburn Building.

12:00 NOON. The Cato Institute will host a luncheon tiled "Telecom Reform after the D.C. Circuit Decision: Is It Time for a New Telecom Act?". Bill Barr (EVP and General Counsel of Verizon) and Adam Thierer (Cato). See, notice. Location: Room G11, Dirksen Building, Capitol Hill.

1:00 PM. The House Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies will hold a hearing on the proposed budget for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). FBI Director Robert Mueller is scheduled to testify. Location: Room 2359, Rayburn Building.

1:30 - 3:30 PM. The WRC-07 Advisory Committee's Informal Working Group 2: Satellite Services and HAPS will meet. See, notice [PDF]. Location: Leventhal Senter & Lerman, 7th Floor Conference Room, 2000 K Street, NW.

The U.S. Trade Representative's (USTR) Trade Policy Staff Committee (TPSC) will hold a hearing regarding negotiating objectives for the proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between the U.S. and four Andean countries (Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia). See, notice in the Federal Register, February 17, 2004, Vol. 69, No. 31, at Pages 7532 - 7534. Location: unannounced.

The House will meet at 1:00 PM for legislative business. See, Republican Whip Notice.

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM. The Department of Justice's (DOJ) Antitrust Division will host a conference titled "Developments in the Law and Economics of Exclusionary Pricing Practices: From Classroom to Courtroom". Judge Richard Posner (U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit) will be the luncheon speaker. Reservations are required. The deadline to register is March 8. The event is free. See, notice. Location: The Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.

8:30 AM - 1:00 PM. Day three of a three day meeting of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB). See, notice in the Federal Register, March 8, 2004, Vol. 69, No. 45, at Pages 10677 - 10678. Location: Hyatt Regency Hotel Bethesda, 7400 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, MD.

9:00 - 11:00 AM. The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) will host a panel discussion titled "Are Shareholder Lawsuits Useful or Frivolous?". See, notice. Location: AEI, 12th, 1150 17th St., NW.

10:00 AM. The House Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies will hold a hearing on the proposed budget for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Acting Director of the USPTO Jon Dudas will testify. Location: Room H-309, Capitol Building.

10:00 AM. The House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims will hold an oversight hearing titled "US VISIT: A Down Payment on Homeland Security". The hearing will be webcast by the Committee. Press contact: Jeff Lungren or Terry Shawn at 202 225-2492. Location: Room 2141, Rayburn Building.

10:00 AM - 12:00 NOON. The State Department Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy (ACICIP) will meet to decide on establishing subcommittees or working groups to focus on specific geographic regions or technologies. Ambassador David Gross will participate. See, notice in the Federal Register, March 11, 2004, Vol. 69, No. 48, at Pages 11696-11697. Location: Room 1105 of the State Department's Truman Building.

12:15 - 1:45 PM. Richard Whitt of MCI WorldCom will present at paper titled "A Horizontal Leap Forward: Formulating A New Public Policy Framework Based On The Network Layers Model" at brown bag lunch hosted by the New America Foundation (NAF). RSVP to Jennifer Buntman at 202 986-4901 or to buntman@newamerica.net. See, notice. Location: NAF, 1630 Connecticut Ave, 7th Floor.

2:00 - 5:00 PM. The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Internet Policy Working Group (IPWG) will hold a "Solutions Summit" on 911/E911 issues that arise as communications services move to internet based platforms. See, FCC release [PDF]. Location: FCC, 445 12th St., SW.

2:00 - 4:30 PM. The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) will host a pair of panel discussions titled "Trade Remedies". See, notice. Location: AEI, 12th, 1150 17th St., NW.

3:15 PM. Phil Bond, of the Department of Commerce's Technology Administration, will speak at a conference hosted by the International Economic Development Council on March 17-19. Bond will release the 4th edition of the State Indicator's Report: The Dynamics of Technology-Based Economic Development. Location: Omni Shoreham Hotel.

TIME? Joel Reidenberg (Fordham University School of Law) will give a lecture titled "The Regulation of Information Flows in a Networked Society". This is a part of Georgetown University Law Center's (GULC) Colloquium on Intellectual Property & Technology Law Series. For more information, contact Julie Cohen at 202 662-9871. Location: GULC, 600 New Jersey Ave., NW.

Deadline to submit comments to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) in response to its notice in the Federal Register requesting comments to assist it in developing "recommendations for improving the United States' spectrum management policies regarding the organization, processes, and procedures affecting Federal government, State, local and private sector spectrum use". The NTIA is conducting this review pursuant to a memorandum from President Bush. See, notice in the Federal Register, February 2, 2004, Vol. 69, No. 21, at Pages 4923 - 4926. See also, story titled "NTIA Seeks Public Comments on Spectrum Management" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 832, February 9, 2004, and story titled "Bush Issues Spectrum Policy Memorandum" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 675, June 6, 2003.

Deadline to submit reply comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in response to its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding modifying it frequency coordination rules to promote sharing between non-geostationary satellite orbit (NGSO) and geostationary satellite orbit (GSO) fixed-satellite service (FSS) operations and various terrestrial services operating in several frequency bands. This NPRM considers a joint proposal submitted by SkyBridge and the Fixed Wireless Communications Coalition (Growth Zone Proposal). This is ET Docket No. 03-254.

9:30 AM. Phil Bond, of the Department of Commerce's Technology Administration, will speak on "the importance of math and science education" at the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition. Location: Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD.

12:00 NOON. Jon Dudas, the acting head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will give a luncheon address on "the importance of intellectual property to the business community" at the Eighth Annual Alexandria Technology Achievement Week. The price is $40. For more information, call 703 549-1000 ext. 207. Location: Radisson Hotel Old Town, 901 North Fairfax Street, Alexandria, VA.

2:30 - 4:30 PM. 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM. The DC Bar Association will host a continuing legal education (CLE) program titled "How Electronic Filing is Changing Litigation". Prices vary. For more information, call 202 737-4700. Location: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.

TIME? The Oracle Corporation and the George Washington University Law School will host a symposium titled "Willful Patent Infringement". The event is free, and open to the public, but registration is required. See, event web site. For more information, contact Laura Heymann at lheymann@law.gwu.edu or 202 994-0420. Location: Jacob Burns Moot Court Room, GWU Law School, 2000 H Street, NW.

Deadline for state and local law enforcement agencies to submit applications to the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to participate in the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program. See, notice in the Federal Register, February 3, 2004, Vol. 69, No. 22, at Pages 5187 - 5193.

Deadline to submit comments to the National Institute of Science and Technology's (NIST) Computer Security Division (CSD) regarding its draft publication [58 pages in PDF] numbered "DRAFT Special Publication 800-30, Rev A" and titled "Risk Management Guide for Information Technology Systems". This publication updates Special Publication 800-30 to reflect the results of the FISMA Implementation Project, to improve internal consistency within the document, and generally improve the document readability. Comments should be addressed to gary.stoneburner@nist.gov.

Deadline to submit comments to the National Institute of Science and Technology's (NIST) Computer Security Division (CSD) regarding its draft publication [33 pages in PDF] numbered "DRAFT Special Publication 800-27 Rev A" and titled "Engineering Principles for Information Technology Security (A Baseline for Achieving Security)". It was written by Gary Stoneburner, Clark Hayden, and Alexis Feringa. Comments should be addressed to gary.stoneburner@nist.gov.

The Supreme Court will return from the recess that it began on March 8.

9:00 AM - 12:00 NOON. The Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) will host a tutorial on recent field studies of digital TV (DTV) translators. Location: FCC, 445 12th Street, SW, Room TWC305 (Commission Meeting Room).