House Republicans take aim at FCC on rules and reform


A key House subcommittee is planning a hearing on process reform at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).



Scheduled for May 3, the session will include the four FCC commissioners and chairman as witnesses, according to a committee aide.


{mosads}Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Communications subpanel have tangled before with the FCC over what the lawmakers see as a flawed process for passing net-neutrality rules — a process the GOP says lacked market analysis or adequate legal grounding.



Republicans also criticized the FCC for attaching certain conditions, which they call unrelated, to the merger of Comcast and NBC Universal, and reiterated those concerns as the FCC teed up to examine the AT&T merger with T-Mobile.