Tag: Federal Communications Commission

In the lead up to a potential December vote on restoring Internet freedom at the FCC's open meeting, there has been an uptick in events, congressional hearings, and commentary. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Beltway Confidential

Government-forced ‘net neutrality’: Putting future inventors between a rock and a hard place

Charles Sauer · November 9, 2017 8:21 pm

Debris scatters a destroyed community in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai was in Puerto Rico to assessed the recovery efforts in response to the hurricane. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai visits Puerto Rico to survey damage from Hurricane Maria

Melissa Quinn · November 8, 2017 12:59 am

Under Ajit Pai's leadership, the FCC adopted nearly 50 items in the first 100 days of the Trump administration, and at least five of those were passed unanimously. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai wins praise for progress, criticism over deregulation

Melissa Quinn · October 30, 2017 4:01 am

President Donald Trump holds up a pen he used to sign one of various bills in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in on March 27. From left are, Sen. Tom Barrasso, R-Wyo., Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Vice President Mike Pence. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Energy and Environment

Trump the deregulator

adam-gustafson · October 23, 2017 4:01 am

"Network news has become so partisan, distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged and, if appropriate, revoked," President Trump said in a tweet. "Not fair to the public!"

Trump’s threats to revoke broadcast licenses put FCC in a ‘Catch 22’

Melissa Quinn · October 23, 2017 4:01 am

An image of President-elect Donald Trump appears on a television screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Beltway Confidential

Never let it be said that being anti-free speech is an explicitly left-wing college thing

Becket Adams · October 19, 2017 12:30 pm

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Few heeded Trump’s call to challenge TV licenses

Steven Nelson · October 19, 2017 5:00 am

Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Democrats request hearing with FCC after Trump’s threats to suspend broadcast licenses

Diana Stancy Correll · October 17, 2017 11:48 pm

Needlessly antagonizing the president further would've jeopardized his job. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, file)

Beltway Confidential

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai pledges allegiance to First Amendment without (needlessly) antagonizing Trump

Philip Wegmann · October 17, 2017 9:38 pm

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai's comments on his dedication to the First Amendment were his first after President Trump suggested last week on Twitter that NBC News and other networks should have their broadcast licenses revoked.

‘I believe in the First Amendment,’ FCC chairman says about Trump’s threat to pull licenses

Melissa Quinn · October 17, 2017 5:51 pm

By advocating censorship, Trump sways his supporters and followers towards the censorious views that have taken over academia and much of the Left. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Presidential pining for censorship hurts the country

Washington Examiner · October 16, 2017 3:43 pm

In the wake of the storms, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, a Republican, announced the agency would launch a Hurricane Recovery Task Force as the commission shifts to focusing on longer-term recovery efforts. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

FCC launches hurricane task force after criticism over response

Melissa Quinn · October 16, 2017 4:01 am