FCC chairman agrees to strike Fairness Doctrine from rulebooks

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said his agency will remove the Fairness Doctrine from the rulebooks in response to a recent request from House Republicans.

"I fully support deleting the Fairness Doctrine and related provisions from the Code of Federal Regulations, so that there can be no mistake that what has been a dead letter is truly dead," Genachowski wrote in a letter Monday to House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.).

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3 House Democrats Join GOP Effort to Curb EPA Power

WSJ: Democrats Collin Peterson of Minnesota, Nick Rahall of West Virginia and Dan Boren of Oklahoma have said they will cosponsor a measure by Rep. Fred Upton (R., Mich.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, to prevent the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases from stationary sources, such as factories...

Democrats Reject Two Measures to Create Parity Between Congress’ Health Coverage and the Public’s

Bringing the Public’s Coverage to the Congressional Level

Posted by Jeff Emanuel (Profile)
Friday, July 31st at 5:25PM EDT

House Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats voted 31-28 to reject an amendment from Reps. Roy Blunt (R-MO), Phil Gingrey (R-GA), and Lee Terry (R-NE) that would have opened up the multiple-plan health coverage options available to Members of Congress to the public at large.

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