Neil Fried is Senior Telecommunications Counsel to the House
Energy and Commerce Committee. He handles television, radio,
telecommunications, spectrum and Internet issues for Rep. Joe Barton, ranking
member of the full committee, and Rep. Cliff Stearns, ranking member of the
Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet. Among other
things, Neil was involved in the enactment of the 2005 digital television transition
legislation. Before joining the committee in August 2003, he spent three years in
private practice, where he specialized in television and telecommunications
issues. Prior to his work in the private sector, Neil served four years with
the Federal Communications Commission as an attorney in what is now the Wireline
Competition Bureau. There, Neil helped implement the Telecommunications Act of
1996. He has an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University in Evanston,
Illinois, and earned his law degree from the Washington University School of
Law in St. Louis, Missouri.
