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Mike O'Rielly
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09/10/2025
O’Rielly’s TMT Whiteboard: Giving Congress Its Due
Given the renewed attention on these authoritative lines after the proper demise of the Chevron Doctrine and other court actions, everyone involved in communications policy should consider Congress in its proper light and be willing to present extraterritorial ideas to the rightful place for dissection.
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08/13/2025
O’Rielly’s TMT Whiteboard: Congressional Earmarks & Internet Access
After years in mothballs, Congress recently brought back the process of including earmarks within its appropriations process as a means to distribute funds to projects it deems worthy.
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07/09/2025
O’Rielly’s TMT Whiteboard: Unmasking Digital Services Taxes
Trade policy can be justifiably complex. What is not complex is when trade policy becomes shorthand for greed and envy.
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06/11/2025
O’Rielly’s TMT Whiteboard: Enact An AI Moratorium
The absence of federal action is empowering thousands of new AI-related bills in statehouses across the country. In turn, it is leading to a varied collection of troublesome laws being enacted.
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05/14/2025
O’Rielly’s TMT Whiteboard: Five Stars for FCC’s Delete, Delete, Delete
Among almost everyone within the communications sphere—practitioners, think tanks, commentators, advocates and the like—the mood is practically electric as the FCC opened one of its most important undertakings in many years.
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04/09/2025
O’Rielly’s TMT Whiteboard: NAB Show 2025 from Afar
The NAB Show 2025 in Las Vegas officially closed. But for those of us focused on policy, shipping off to Vegas was not a necessity to explore the policy goals discussed at the Show.