[IRCA] NY Times - House Cmte Chmn orders FCC Inquiry

["Bob Foxworth" <rfoxwor1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Today's NY Times, in an AP wire story, says that John
Dingell-D-MI who heads the House Energy and
Commerce Committee, says that the FCC has suffered
an "apparent breakdown in an open and transparent
regulatory process". He is "losing confidence that
the commission has been conducting its affairs in
an appropriate manner", and has ordered an inquiry.

The investigation will be conducted by Rep. Bart Stupak,
D-MI, who has received "several complaints about the
way that (Kevin) Martin has conducted business" that
include claims of an "abuse of power and an attempt
to keep fellow commissioners in the dark". The terms
"selectively withholding data" and "short-circuiting
procedural norms" also appear in the AP story's
allegations, among others.

End excerpts from the AP story. The following are from
me.

Perhaps someone will advise Rep. Stupak of the
academic interest of examining the ways in which
the Commission came to its decisions on the BPL
issue, and the IBOC issue, both of which seem to me
to have striking similarities, among which are
deliberately ignoring technical information that
would suggest not adopting the positions that were
subsequently taken.

Should be interesting.

- Bob




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