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Martin’s management at FCC under scrutiny

Dingell leads investigation

By Jeffrey Silva

Story posted: December 4, 2007 - 1:53 pm EDT

The House Commerce Committee launched an investigation into Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin’s management of the agency.

“Procedural breakdowns at the agency tasked with overseeing communications laws for our entire nation jeopardize the public interest it is bound to serve,” said House Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell (D-Mich.). “Our nation is founded on fair, open and transparent government, and the Federal Communications Commission is certainly no exception. When that openness and transparency is compromised, so too is public confidence in the agency.”…