FCC Chairman Brendan Carr sat before a Senate Oversight Hearing on Wednesday, and made statements that led the organization to change language on its website in the process.
While being questioned by Senators, Carr was asked if the FCC was an “independent agency” by Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM).
The pair clashed when Carr failed to give a simple “yes” or “no” answer.
When Carr answered the question, he denied that it was independent.
“The FCC is not an independent agency, formally speaking,” Carr said, before being interrupted by the Senator.
Following his statements, Axios media reporter Sara Fischer shared screenshots of the FCC website showing that the statement of the FCC’s mission had been changed less than a half hour after the comments from Carr were made.
Before Carr’s statements, the subsection under “The FCC’s Mission” title on its “About Us” page read: “The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. An independent U.S. government agency overseen by Congress, the Commission is the federal agency responsible for implementing and enforcing America’s communications law and regulations.”
However, following the statements from Brendan Carr, the word “independent” had been removed from the Commission’s website.
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