Any FCC attempt to fix its own processes...
Any FCC attempt to fix its own processes doesn’t erase a need to enact legislation to that end, said House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., in a statement Tuesday. He weighed in on a set of FCC process review…
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recommendations the agency released Friday (CD Feb 18 p7) and touted the FCC Process Reform Act, which cleared the House Commerce Committee in December. “I am pleased that many of the recommendations of the working group are so closely aligned with those contained in HR-3675 and look forward to their implementation,” Walden said (http://1.usa.gov/O9TyVK). “However, without enshrining these reforms in statute, their future will always be at the whim of whomever may be appointed chair. We owe it to the American people to enact laws that work on their behalf, and the FCC Process Reform Act certainly meets that test.” Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., recently introduced the bill in the Senate.