Pai Statement on Paage of Consolidated Reporting Act

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This is an unofficial announcement of Commission action. Release of the full text of a Commission order constitutes official action.

See MCI v. FCC, 515 F.2d 385 (D.C. Cir. 1974).

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

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September 10, 2013

Matthew Berry, 202-418-2005

Email: Matthew.Berry@fcc.gov

STATEMENT OF COMMISSIONER AJIT PAI

ON PASSAGE OF THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION CONSOLIDATED

REPORTING ACT BY THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

I applaud the U.S. House of Representatives for unanimously passing yesterday evening

H.R. 2844, the Federal Communications Commission Consolidated Reporting Act, and I

commend the leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committees Subcommittee on

Communications and Technology--Chairman Walden and Ranking Member Eshoo--as well as

Representative Scalise for their bipartisan efforts to advance this important legislation.

The FCCs reporting requirements are numerous, outdated, and unnecessarily

burdensome. Replacing them with a single biennial Communications Marketplace Report will

not only enable more efficient use of agency resources, it will also provide Congress and the

public with a comprehensive and far more useful set of data that reflects the realities of todays

converged marketplace. This is straightforward, good-government legislation, and I hope that

the U.S. Senate will act quickly to send this bill to the President for his signature.

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