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  "description": "Session follows bipartisan concern over Chairman Brendan Carr’s perceived threats toward broadcast licensees.",
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  "textContent": "WASHINGTON, Nov. 11, 2025 – Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission **Brendan Carr** will have to answer to senators on the Commerce committee next month _amid criticism_ that he used his post to pressure a broadcaster.\n\nLed in part by his own party ally, Sen. **Ted Cruz** , R-Texas, who _has accused_ Carr of “dangerous” overreach, the session was expected to revisit Carr’s perceived threats to broadcast licensees over content aired on ABC’s _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_\n\nThe Senate Commerce Committee _announced Monday_ it will hold the FCC oversight hearing on Dec. 17, where Carr and Commissioners**Anna Gomez** and**Olivia Trusty** are all scheduled to testify.\n\nThe session follows weeks of bipartisan concern over Carr’s perceived threats to broadcast licensees after his remarks were linked to ABC’s brief suspension of late-night host**Jimmy Kimmel** in September.\n\nCarr, a Republican appointee of President**Donald Trump** , warned ABC and its parent company, Disney, that the network could “do this the easy way or the hard way” after Kimmel commented on the assassination of conservative activist **Charlie Kirk**.\n\nIn a podcast interview, Carr characterized Kimmel’s remarks as “truly sick”, and said that Disney and ABC should hold Kimmel accountable or face punishment.\n\n\"This is a very, very serious issue right now for Disney,” Carr said. “We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.\"\n\nFollowing Carr’s remarks, several ABC affiliates, including Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Inc., pulled _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ from their schedules, drawing outrage across party lines.\n\nThe controversy stemmed from Kimmel’s Sept. 15 broadcast, when he said that President Trump’s supporters were trying to “score political points” by portraying Kirk’s accused killer, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, as a left-wing radical, and characterizing Robinson as “anything other than one of them.”\n\n###  _'Dangerous as hell,' said Cruz_\n\nCruz, chairman of the Senate Commerce committee and**** one of Trump’s closest allies, said Carr’s behavior “puts government in the business of deciding which speech it likes and what it will punish,” calling the comments “dangerous as hell.”\n\nOther Republicans have chimed in to support Cruz since. They included: Sens. **Rand Paul** , Ky., **Todd Young** , Ind., **Dave McCormick** , Pa., **Lisa Murkowski** , Alaska, **Jerry Moran** , Kan., and Rep. **Brett Guthrie** , Ky.\n\nOn the Democratic side, Sen.**Maria Cantwell** , Wash., the Commerce committee’s ranking member, led her party _on Sept. 19_ in calling for Carr to appear before the panel.\n\nBoth Carr and Trusty have since characterized the affiliates’ decisions to pull _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ as business judgments made independently by the stations.\n\nIt will be the first time in more than five years that all FCC commissioners have appeared together before the Senate Commerce committee, which last held a full FCC oversight hearing on June 24, 2020, under then Chairman **Roger Wicker** , R-Miss.",
  "title": "Senate Commerce Schedules FCC Oversight Hearing",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-11T21:51:27.238Z"
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