The House Wednesday will vote on both the DTV transition and the stimulus package

By Stephen Silver

The House of Representatives Wednesday will consider two pieces of legislation likely to have large effects on the electronics industry: the delay of the DTV transition until June, and the $825 billion stimulus package.

The DTV bill, which passed the Senate unanimously last week, will likely come to a House vote Wednesday; if passed it would go straight to President Obama's desk.

The stimulus package, which in one edition appropriated $650 million for the DTV transition, $6 billion for high speed Internet access and $2 billion for schools and government agencies to buy computers and software, will also come before the House for a vote Wednesday, although it has not yet been passed by the Senate and still has significant Republican opposition.

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