Media Contact: 
Mark Wigfield, (202) 418-0253
mark.wigfield@fcc.gov
For Immediate Release
STATEMENT OF FCC CHAIRMAN AJIT PAI 
ANNOUNCING ANOTHER PROCESS REFORM MEASURE
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WASHINGTON, February 6, 2017 – Last week, I started a pilot program under which the 
Federal Communications Commission publicly released the text of two items to be voted upon at 
the agency’s upcoming February 23 meeting.  This program is designed to give Americans 
greater insight into the Commission’s thinking about meeting items.  Today, I’m announcing 
another process reform measure relating to such items.
During the past few years, the Chairman’s Office often briefed the press or published a blog 
about matters to be voted upon at the FCC’s monthly meetings before sharing those matters with 
Commissioners.  As a Commissioner, I thought that actions like these were inappropriate and 
disrespectful of other Commissioners.  Now, as Chairman, I still hold that view.  Accordingly, I 
pledge that during my tenure as Chairman, my office will share with every Commissioner’s office
every item that will be considered at an open meeting before anyone in my office discusses the 
content of those items publicly or the FCC releases the text of those documents.  That is what we 
did with respect to the meeting items for the February 2017 meeting, and that is what we will 
continue to do in the months to come.
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Office of Chairman Ajit Pai: (202) 418-2000
Twitter: @AjitPaiFCC
www.fcc.gov/leadership/ajit-pai
This is an unofficial announcement of Commission action.  Release of the full text of a Commission order 
constitutes official action.  See MCI v. FCC, 515 F.2d 385 (D.C. Cir. 1974).