Rep Doyle Sees Broadband Allies in Clinton, Obama

As an uncommitted superdelegate in Pennsylvania, home of next week's potentially make-or-break primary, Rep. Mike Doyle has been a popular fellow with the Democratic presidential candidates of late. "I have had the opportunity to sit down with both Sen. [Hillary] Clinton [D-NY] and Sen. [Barack] Obama [D-IL]," he said. "I think both of them understand the importance of encouraging innovation and that the best way to do that is to have competition. I feel very confident that both of these candidates are going to encourage the type of policies that will help us grow the Internet and broadband." For Rep Doyle, those are policies that encourage open access. "We want to see broadband deployment across every part of this country,” he said. “We want it to be accessible, we want it to be affordable, and we want it to grow.” Rep Doyle added, "I'm satisfied that we have allies in the White House on that regard" if either Sen Obama or Sen Clinton are elected. Rep Dolye said that the House Telecommunications & Internet Subcommittee has concerns about how the Federal Communications Commission does its job but said he is reserving judgment on whether information at the FCC is being "filtered" so that "not all of the commissioners get all the information" and gave FCC chairman Kevin Martin a pretty good grade overall. Asked to grade Martin, Rep Doyle gave him a "B to B-minus." He called him "very smart" and "very politically savvy" and said he has "a genuine interest in the issues of the committee." He also said that while Martin can come across as heavy-handed, he also found him to be willing to discuss the issues they disagreed on.
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