[March 8, 2001]

"FCC reform is one of the top priorities of the Energy and Commerce Committee. Too often, the FCC is hamstrung by dint of its antiquated design. Separate bureaus assigned to each segment of the industry may have worked well enough in days gone by. But today the FCC's smokestack mentality is simply a relic, ill-equipped to handle the convergence of technologies that are at the heart of your modern industry."

—Rep. John Dingell (D-MI)
Ranking Democrat on the House Commerce Committee
in Speech before USTA