Rep. Terry: FCC Actions Undermine Process

Rep Lee Terry (R-NE) says Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski has done a "decent" job, but some of the most significant actions by the agency seem to be driven by a partisan agenda.

He said FCC actions on open Internet rules as well as efforts to reform the Universal Service Fund to promote broadband development have suffered from preconceived opinions and a lack of transparency. "The critique would have to be net neutrality looked like it was driven by an agenda rather than good policy," said Rep Terry, vice chairman of the House Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology. Efforts to reform the Universal Service Fund to pay for new broadband services, meanwhile, are opaque, Rep Terry said. "There's an order out there and I have no Idea what it says." Rep Terry said unpublicized agency orders and "document dumps" can make it appear that FCC leaders are "abusing the process."