Chaffetz Wants Wireline Bureau Officials in for Interviews
House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, wants the FCC to make four officials in the Wireline Bureau Competition Policy Division available for transcribed interviews before March 27, he told FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler in a letter Thursday. These interviews…
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would be “to advance the Committee’s investigation” into whether “the White House improperly influenced the development of the draft Open Internet Order,” Chaffetz said. The FCC approved that order at its Feb. 26 meeting and released it Thursday (see 1503120053). Chaffetz wants to hear from the FCC’s Kristine Fargotstein, Melissa Kirkel, Thomas Parisi and Carol Simpson, he said. He also tallied ways the agency has not complied with his requests so far in the investigation. Wheeler declined to testify at a hearing prior to the Feb. 26 vote and “declined to make the relevant staff” heading the Wireline and Wireless bureaus available to brief Chaffetz’s office, Chaffetz observed. “The Commission offered to make ... both bureau chiefs available to discuss the Open Internet Order, but committee staff rejected the briefing," an FCC spokeswoman told us when asked about the Chaffetz letter. Chaffetz also mentioned two letters he sent requesting preservation orders “because the Commission was unwilling to provide them to my staff voluntarily.” Wheeler will testify before Chaffetz at an oversight hearing 10 a.m. Tuesday in 2154 Rayburn.