[x-pubpol] House GOP plan to gut the FCC

[Joly MacFie]

(Via LNNsquad)

House GOP plan to gut the FCC

http://j.mp/GHwOp0  (Wired)

  "As Rep. Henry Waxman, the Ranking Member of the House Energy and
   Commerce Committee makes clear, the bill will disable the FCC, not
   reform it.  It does this by creating a special set of vague and novel
   procedural hurdles for the FCC to which no other agency is subject and
   that will require another decade of litigation to clarify. It does
   this by significantly reducing the FCC's ability to take the public
   interest into account when considering mergers. And it provides
   innumerable additional routes for mischievous litigation, making every
   single one of the FCC's regulatory analyses in support of a new rule -
   and not just the rule itself - subject to judicial review. Don't like
   the FCC's suggestion that public interest values are worth taking into
   account? Sue, and paralyze the Commission."

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