Boucher makes plans for telecom reform while ramping up re-election campaign - The Hill's Hillicon Valley

Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) has big plans this year. He wants to reform the nearly $8 billion-a-year fund to subsidize internet services. He also wants to enact the first online privacy legislation. That's not all--he also wants to push the Spectrum Inventory Act through the House and hold a number of oversight hearings on the FCC's National Broadband Plan.

All the while, Boucher will be campaigning against a Republican challenger for his seat. As chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, he has a lot to accomplish in Washington while also defending the seat he has held for 28 years...