House Commerce Democrats Call for Merger Hearings

House Commerce Committee Democratic leaders have asked their Republican counterparts, who control the agenda, to hold hearings on the proposed Comcast/Time Warner Cable and AT&T/DirecTV mergers, and a Sprint/T-Mobile deal if that ever materializes.

That request came in a letter from Reps Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Anna Eshoo (D-CA), the ranking members of the full committee and Communications Subcommittee, respectively, and Rep Doris Matsui (D-CA), to full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR).