Shimkus: FCC Probe No Threat To Martin

Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) is this week's guest on CSPAN's The Communicators [fire up the TiVo!] and he said that the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations investigation of the Federal Communications Commission is unlikely to uncover wrongdoing by Chairman Kevin Martin. “I don't think it will amount to a lot. I think it will allow us to become better educated. It will help us understand what the FCC does and doesn't do." Rep Shimkus said the FCC has been cooperative with the subcommittee. “I think they have. There was, it seemed, like a lot of cantankerous language going back and forth when I first became ranking member,” he said. Rep Shimkus suggested that when Republicans controlled the House during Martin's first two years in office, the Energy and Commerce Committee defaulted on its obligation to keep a close eye on independent regulatory agencies run by Bush appointees. “Part of our problem is that, incredibly, we didn't do a good enough job of really scrutinizing federal agencies,” he said. "As conservative Republicans, we ought to—it shouldn't matter who's in the White House."
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