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Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr on Thursday defended his claim that the FCC is not an independent agency, asserting that Congress never gave FCC commissioners protection from being removed by the president at will.
Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) called for the FCC chairman's resignation, saying he had turned the agency “into the 'Federal Censorship Commission.'”
The most poignant split-screen moment during FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's testimony before Congress Wednesday happened when Senator Ed Markey gave new meaning to the agency's acronym. "You are now the chairman of the Federal Censorship Commission,
Texas, grilled Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr on Wednesday over his push for broadcasters to take ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel off the air.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr faced tough questioning Wednesday in his first Senate testimony since suggesting ABC network licenses could be pulled after late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s comments about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.