Hill Divided Over FCC Reform

摘要

Reublicans and democrats were at odds last week over a series of proposed FCC reforms. Like the deficit and healthcare, both sides agree that something needs to be done, but that's about it. Republicans got the ball rolling with draft legislation that, among other things, took aim at the way the FCC conditioned the Comcast/NBCU deal with a network neutrality requirement. The draft was billed as a starting point for bipartisan discussion; the debate it prompted proved to be anything but. Democrats fired back that the legislation would not only undermine the commission but could result in the FCC denying deals that would have otherwise been approved.