United States House Energy Subcommittee on Communications and Technology

The U.S. House Energy Subcommittee on Communications and Technology is a subcommittee within the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. The subcommittee existed as the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet during the 111th Congress and beyond.

Jurisdiction
The committee has jurisdiction over:
 * Interstate and foreign electronic communications, "both Interstate and foreign, including voice, video, audio and data, whether transmitted by wire or wirelessly, and whether transmitted by telecommunications, commercial or private mobile service, broadcast, cable, satellite, microwave, or other mode"
 * Technology in general
 * The emergency communication system and public safety communications
 * "Cybersecurity, privacy, and data security"
 * Oversight over:
 * Federal Communications Commission
 * National Telecommunications and Information Administration
 * Office of Emergency Communications in the Department of Homeland Security; and all aspects of the above-referenced jurisdiction related to the Department of Homeland Security.

Subcommittee activities in 115th Congress
The subcommittee typically has two types of meetings: The following table shows some of the subcommittee's activities held in 2017, as of early March 2017.
 * Hearings, in which subcommittee members discuss specific issues related to proposed legislation or general topics, listen to testimony from a panel of invited guests, and ask the panel questions
 * Markups, in which the subcommittee considers specific bills, offers and votes on amendments, and then votes on whether to continue the bills through the legislative process