The FCC's process reform report, which chairman Tom Wheeler says should be put into action, includes a request for groups filing comments in FCC dockets to make the kind of disclosures that Hill Democrats were pressing the FCC to seek from groups buying political ads. The report advises the FCC's office of general counsel to draft an order recommending the agency adopt rules that groups filing comments have to identify who is backing them. The issue of who is the "real party in interest" in such proceedings was teed up in a 2011 notice of proposed rulemaking.
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