The Republican leadership of the House and Senate committees overseeing the Federal Communications Commission has called on the regulator’s acting Inspector General, Sharon Diskin, to look into FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel’s handling of the review of the Standard General-Tegna merger.
In a letter to Diskin Friday (May 16), House Energy & Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and Senate Commerce Committee ranking member Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) intimated that the designation of the deal for a hearing before the FCC's administrative law judge last February was "motivated by a biased desire to block the deal."
