Rep James Lankford Rips FCC, TV on House Floor

Rep James Lankford (R-OK) introduced and then withdrew an amendment to the Financial Services bill--which includes Federal Communications Commission appropriations -- that would have prevented the FCC from changing its indecency enforcement policy to pursue only egregious cases, as it has been informally doing since then-FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski adopted the policy in 2012 as a way to work through a million-plus complaint backlog.