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STATEMENT OF COMMISSIONER AJIT PAI
ON COMMITTEE PASSAGE OF THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 
COMMISSION CONSOLIDATED REPORTING ACT
I commend the House Energy and Commerce Committee for passing the Federal 
Communications Commission Consolidated Reporting Act and applaud Subcommittee Chairman 
Walden, Ranking Member Eshoo and Representative Scalise for their leadership in sponsoring 
this common-sense piece of legislation.  The FCC’s reporting requirements are numerous, 
burdensome, and sometimes obsolete.  Replacing these disparate obligations with a single 
biennial Communications Marketplace Report will make better use of limited Commission 
resources.  It will also provide Congress and the public with a comprehensive and far more 
useful set of data that better reflects the realities of today’s converged marketplace.  I hope that 
this bipartisan legislation will soon be signed into law.