WASHINGTON, May 8 -- Sen. Maria Cantwell issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, along with Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA), and Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) led their colleagues in a letter (https://www.commerce.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/carr_license_renewal_letter.pdf) to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr, urging the FCC to rescind last week's order requiring Disney to file early license renewals for its eight ABC broadcast stations.
The FCC order, at Chairman Carr's directive, came just one...