Former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said the commission...
Former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said the commission would consider a letter authored by 20 House lawmakers that urged the FCC not to relax the agency’s broadcast indecency rules, according to documents that were published on the FCC website Tuesday.…
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“Your views are important and will be included in the record of the proceeding and considered as part of the Commission’s review,” Genachowski’s letters said. “After the Supreme Court’s decision last year in FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc., I instructed Commission staff to commence a review of the Commission’s broadcast indecency policies and enforcement to ensure they are fully consistent with vital First Amendment principles. In the interim, I directed the Commission’s Enforcement Bureau to focus its indecency enforcement resources on egregious cases and to reduce the backlog of pending broadcast indecency complaints,” Genachowski wrote. The letters were sent to 19 Republicans and one Democrat who asked Genachowski to “reject any and all proposals that would relax current policies to only target so called egregious offenses” (http://bit.ly/103l1q9). The lawmakers are: Reps. Randy Forbes, R-Va.; Kevin Cramer, R-N.D.; Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan.; Trent Franks, R-Ariz.; Alan Nunnelee, R-Miss.; James Lankford, R-Okla.; John Fleming, R-La.; Frank Wolf, R-Va.; Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla.; Keith Rothfus, R-Pa.; Kerry Bentivolio, R-Mich.; Mike McIntyre, D-N.C.; Tim Walberg, R-Mich.; Jeff Miller, R-Fla.; Walter Jones, R-N.C.; Gregg Harper, R-Miss.; Doug Collins, R-Ga.; Steve Pearce, R-N.M.; Louie Gohmert, R-Texas; and Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo.