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Rep. Cammack leads letter to FCC on Congressional Review Act (CRA) violation

December 13, 2023

Press release from the Office of Congresswoman Kat Cammack

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Rep. Kat Cammack led a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel about the adoption of a new Report and Order in the Data Breach Reporting Requirements proceeding that includes rules that would violate the Congressional Review Act (CRA).

The Congressional Review Act exists as part of Congress’s Article I authority to exercise oversight of federal agencies. If Congress passes a Resolution of Disapproval about a rule, the new rule does not take effect and may not be reissued substantially in the same form in a future rule.

The letter states: “These rules are substantially the same as those Congress disapproved of in the Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services proceeding (2016 Privacy Order) in 2017. Therefore, it would be unlawful for the FCC to adopt these new rules.”

It continues: “In many ways, the proposed Data Breach Reporting Requirements rules are substantially the same as the rules in the 2016 Privacy Order. For example, requirements for notification, content of customer notification, and recordkeeping largely mirror each other. Given these similarities, we are shocked that the FCC is attempting to revive these rules after Congress explicitly rejected them… [w]hen Congress overrules an agency, that action is final; no agency has the power to ignore the plain meaning of a Congressional statute. Here, Congress has already spoken: rules like those in the 2016 Privacy Order are not to be adopted. Therefore, we urge you not to move forward with the Data Breach Reporting Requirements Report and Order.”

Congresswoman Cammack spoke about this issue during a subcommittee hearing with FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr in November. Watch the clip here.

Joining Congresswoman Cammack on the letter are her colleagues on the Energy & Commerce Committee: Neal Dunn, Gus Bilirakis, Morgan Griffith, Randy Weber, Larry Bucshon, Richard Hudson, Jeff Duncan, Rick Allen, and Greg Pence.

Read the full letter here.

  • Biden’s FCC unelected deep state are trying to spy on citizens who question their work.

  • This is what we get for electing her to office. Not ONE piece of legislation submitted or passed into law.
    All she has done is write letters, buddy up to other lazy politicians and fly about on the tax payers dime.
    We need someone in this congressional seat who will actually do something.

  • Fat Cammack needs to go. She is a quintessential swamp creature like 99% of the rest of congress.

    • Memo to Jim Beam. Have some respect for your Congresscritter. Her name is not Fat Cammack. Her name is The Honorable Phat Cammack.

  • If you’re truly worried with unlawful, warrantless spying on American citizens, vote against the $900 billion NDAA reauthorization bill that just made its way thru the trashy Senate. All under the guise of foreign war, national security misdirection

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