Barton Says He Would Take On FCC as Commerce Chairman

摘要

The ranking member of the House Commerce Committee, Joe Barton, R-Texas, said he plans nto investigate why the FCC “thinks the Internet needs federal government regulation for the nfirst time” if he becomes the chairman next year. If Republicans take the House, he said in a nWashington Times op-ed, he “will ask my colleagues for the privilege of serving as chairman of nthe committee I love, the House Energy and Commerce Committee." Under Barton's nleadership, the committee’s “first job will be to find out what’s gone wrong” under the Obama nadministration, he said. “That’s why the return of vigorous congressional oversight is going to nbe a top priority for me and the committee next year.”