FCC Chairman Complies With House Investigation

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin has complied with a House Commerce Committee request for information on his management of the FCC by delivering the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations 40 boxes of files. The subcommittee, chaired by Rep Bart Stupak (D-MI), was originally expected to hold a hearing on the results of its investigation in the spring, now is expected to hold one this fall. Congressmen previously have been critical of Chairman Martin, with some of them upset about the FCC's media-ownership rules changes and others unhappy with Martin's efforts to get cable operators to offer channels a la carte. The latest probe goes deeper, however.