House Republicans: Something Smells Rotten at FCC

The leadership of the House Commerce Committee and Communications Subcommittee said that something "smells rotten on the [Federal Communications Commission's] 8th Floor" -- where the commissioner offices are located -- and that a report about a waiver related to an upcoming auction raises "a cloud of favoritism."

Rep Fred Upton (R-MI) and Greg Walden (R-OR), chairman of the full committee and subcommittee, respectively, were responding to a Bloomberg News story that the FCC had granted a waiver to a private equity firm and Obama supporter, Grain Management, and had done so in a nonpublic 3-2 vote.