PANEL DEBATES CHANGING FCC STRUCTURE

摘要

The Progress & Freedom Foundation (PFF) released a report recommending FCC restructuring and sponsored a panel of lawyers and scholars who had other ideas on how to change the agency. PFF recommended turning the FCC into 2 agencies: (1) A rulemaking body run by a single administrator and located in the executive branch. (2) A multimember Commission similar to the current FCC that would handle enforcement and adjudication. The report was the last in a series presented by PFF抯 2-year Digital Age Communications Act project recommending ways to regulate communications. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), however, told the predominantly conservative group the chances of such change are small, given the changeover in congressional control. But the project offers a long-term view of where the govt. should go to 揷reate a global communications structure,?so 搇et抯 not diminish the vision because we think it will be delayed,?he said.