McCain vows to overhaul FCC.(Senator John McCain)

Broadcasting & Cable, June, 1998 by McConnell, Chris

Tells commissioners that agency 'needs to have its priorities adjusted' Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) says he wants to revamp the FCC during the next session of Congress. Addressing all five commissioners during a Communications Subcommittee hearing last week, McCain blasted the agency's performance on several fronts and asserted that the commission "needs to have its priorities adjusted, its excess tonnage trimmed and its functions realigned.

"To paraphrase Winston Churchill-as things stand now, never have so many worked so hard to produce so little for so few," McCain added. He called the number of senior FCC staffers excessive and said that the average commission employee earns more than $74,000 per year, compared with...

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