WASHINGTON, March 15 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey issued the following press release:
Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr, urging him to resign over his latest social media (https://x.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/2032855414233047172) post threatening to revoke broadcasters' licenses if they do not cover the illegal war with Iran with Donald Trump's preferred narrative. Senator Markey highlights this post as an extraordinary abuse of FCC authority and a clear violation of the First Amendment, as well as the Trump administration's latest authoritarian attempt to weaponize the FCC's statutory authority t...