FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 
WASHINGTON 
OFFICE OF 
THE CHAIRMAN 
The Honorable Darrell Issa 
U.S. House of Representatives 
2269 Rayburn House Office Building 
Washington, D.C. 20515 
Dear Congressman Issa: 
July11,2016 
Thank you for your letter requesting that the Federal Communications Commission 
extend the comment deadline in our rulemaking proceeding examining how to comply with the 
Communication Act's mandate for consumer choice in the way they access television content. 
This February the Commission put out for public comment a proposal that would fulfill 
the statutory requirement of competitive choice for consumers. This action opened a fact-finding 
dialog to build a record upon which to base any final decision. 
I agree with you that our proposed rules will have "wide-ranging implications for how 
millions of Americans receive and consume content." In that regard, and despite the 
Commission's general policy under Section 1.46(a) of our rules to not grant extensions of time 
routinely, the Commission' s Media Bureau did grant a 7-day extension to the comment filing 
deadline to April 22, 2016, more than two months after the Commission put this proposal out for 
public comment. The Media Bureau also extended the reply comment filing deadline to May 23 , 
2016. 
While the due dates for initial comments and reply comments have technically passed, as 
with all of our proceedings, we will continue accepting comments, studies, and observations for 
the record and engage in constructive conversations with all stakeholders. The record has 
already reached multiple hundreds of thousands of pages of information and continues to grow. 
To date, the record contains more than 280,000 filings, the majority of which come from 
individual consumers, which is why I am confident our proceeding will be the most extensive 
examination of the subject ever undertaken. 
I appreciate your interest in this matter. Please let me know if I can be of any further 
assistance. 
Tom Wheeler