New leadership, possible fixes
In mid-January, more than 150 members of Congress wrote to the FCC, urging the agency to carefully scrutinize the companies that are set to receive federal broadband subsidies.
In a letter to then-Chairman Ajit Pai, the bipartisan group of legislators said the FCC must ensure the companies can deliver what they’re promising, without mentioning any companies by name.
“Without proper due diligence today, we fear that we will not know whether funds were improperly spent for years to come,” read the letter, whose signatories included U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-South Carolina, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, and Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Michigan.
A day after that letter
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