Senate Commerce Technology Subcommittee Chmn. Brownback (R-Kan.) ...
Senate Commerce Technology Subcommittee Chmn. Brownback (R-Kan.) said Wed. he wanted FCC reform to be a priority for the Commerce Committee this session. In a statement to accompany a Communications Subcommittee hearing on E911, Brownback said he would meet…
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with Committee Chmn. McCain (R- Ariz.) to discuss the committee’s agenda, particularly FCC reform. “How can the Commission be expected to help make E911 a success if the Commission is broken?” Brownback asked, again criticizing the agency for its Triennial Review ruling. “Today we are faced with unprecedented uncertainty in the telecom sector created by fly-by-night rulemaking, public admissions by a Commissioner suggesting he didn’t know what he was voting on and a final product consisting of what appears to be conflicting federal-state jurisdictional standards supposedly derived from one federal standard in the [Telecom] Act.” He said he voted for the Telecom Act, but didn’t recall voting in favor of “regulation by multiple choice.” Brownback also said the process leading to the order “leaves much to be desired.” A spokeswoman for McCain said FCC reauthorization was included in the committee agenda McCain released in Nov.