A handful of Republican members of the House...
A handful of Republican members of the House Commerce Committee urged the FCC to safeguard against fraud in its oversight of the Interstate Telecommunications Relay Service Fund and the Video Relay Service, in letters sent Thursday. “The purpose of our…
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inquiry is … to find out whether the program, in its current form, is efficient, sustainable and sufficiently safeguarded against the possibility of fraud,” the letters said. “In light of concerns voiced by your agency in a June 28, 2010, Notice of Inquiry, that ’the [VRS] program is fraught with inefficiencies (at best) and opportunities for fraud and abuse (at worst)[,]’ we believe such oversight is warranted.” The letters were sent to FCC acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn and FCC Inspector General David Hunt by Republican Reps. Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania, chairman of the Oversight Subcommittee; Joe Barton of Texas; Greg Walden of Oregon, chairman of the Communications Subcommittee; Michael Burgess of Texas; and Bob Latta of Ohio.