Wheeler Named 'Porker of the Month' for E-rate Increase
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler was named “December Porker of the Month,” by Citizens Against Government Waste, a Thursday news release said. The organization cited the commission’s $1.5 billion increase of the E-rate spending cap earlier this month (see 1412110049) as…
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a “high-tech holiday spending spree.” The increase “does not include any reforms of the program’s burdensome administrative procedures and lengthy application process, nor does it reduce wasteful spending,” CAGW President Tom Schatz said in the release. The FCC had no comment.