WASHINGTON—FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will head to the White House on Monday to meet with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. There is now word on what the meeting will entail, but it comes ahead of Pai's Senate Commerce Committee oversight hearing that is scheduled to take place on Wednesday.
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According to multiple industry groups, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has been renominated for another five-year term on the commission.
After being put in John Oliver’s crosshairs over net neutrality (and his oversized Reese’s Peanut Butter mug), FCC Chairman Ajit Pai shows off his sense of humor from parodying another late night bit, Jimmy Kimmel’s “Mean Tweets.”
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, along with commissioners Mignon Clyburn and Michael O’Rielly, told the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government that the commission can do more with less, referring to Pai’s proposed budget cuts.
The beginning of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s tenure is wildly different depending who you ask on the Senate Commerce Committee.
What many believed would happen is now official with the release of President Trump’s budget proposal—funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is being zeroed out.
Following President Trump’s tweets last week that NBC News should have its licensed reviewed in response to a negative story about the president, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has come out and said that “under the law, the FCC doesn’t have the authority to revoke a license of a broadcast station based on the content of a particular newscast.”
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has scheduled a vote on media ownership for the FCC’s November meeting that he says would achieve major broadcast deregulation.