Congress and Telecommunications Policymaking
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Description
Changes in telecommunications policy are often thought to be controlled by agencies, courts, and telecommunications businesses, with Congress helplessly observing from the sidelines. To be sure, there is a great deal of legislative activity—irate speeches, bills, hearings, legislation reported from committees—but the massive changes in telecommunications regulation in the past decade have not been made in the Capitol. Virtually every attempt at legislation bogged down somewhere in the legislative labyrinth. Many observers have therefore concluded that Congress is powerless in the telecommunications area.
Source Publication
New Directions in Telecommunications Policy: Regulatory Policy, Telephony and Mass Media
Source Editors/Authors
Paula R. Newberg
Publication Date
1989
Volume Number
1
Recommended Citation
Ferejohn, John A. and Shipan, Charles R., "Congress and Telecommunications Policymaking" (1989). Faculty Chapters. 514.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/514
