Martin Defends FCC Practices

MARTIN DEFENDS COMMISSION PRACTICES
[SOURCE: Reuters, AUTHOR: Robert MacMillan]
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin defended the agency's rule-making procedures and management practices on Wednesday, a day after a congressional committee said it would investigate. "The practices at the commission I run are very similar to how the commission has been managed under previous Republican and Democratic commissioners and chairmen," Martin, a Republican, told reporters after speaking to the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's and Citizenship Education Fund's Wall Street Project economic summit in New York. "I was actually at the commission as a staffer when there were Democratic commissioners and a Democratic chairman, and we run the processes in the same way they were run at the time," said Chairman Martin. Martin's comments came amid growing friction between Martin and some lawmakers.
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