Rep Eshoo Slams FCC Reform Bills

Rep Anna Eshoo (D-CA) will take aim at a trio of Republican Federal Communications Commission process reform bills that are the subject of an oversight hearing in the Communications Subcommittee on April 30. But she does more than just throw stones, offering some bricks to build better process. That is according to a copy of her opening statement for the hearing. "Collectively, these bills will tie the agency in knots by undermining established Administrative Procedure Act (APA) precedents, establishing a new FCC-specific regime that jeopardizes regulatory certainty, and opens the door to legal challenges on every Commission action," she plans to tell her colleagues. "By breaking the back of the delegated authority process, the legislation will encourage wholesale, last-minute lobbying to game the system, increasing the time and litigation related to FCC processes."