[CW] Re: [Elecraft] Fw: [Drake] Contact your Representatives (BPL)

Sat, 27 Sep 2003 22:05:59 -0700

Foxtrot-Charlie-Charlie, like all other executive branch agencies, can only
adopt regulations within the scope of authority granted in statutes enacted
by Acts of Congress.
That the FTC acted without the scope of its statutory authority as granted
by an Act of Congress was the basis for the first federal district court
decision last week stopping the Do Not Call telemarketer list.  Now,
Congress acted swiftly to grant such authority to the FTC.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Earl W Cunningham" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 7:57 PM
Subject: [CW] Re: [Elecraft] Fw: [Drake] Contact your Representatives (BPL)

> George, W5YR wrote:
>
> "....what is the practical reason for contacting one's representative or
> senator? The FCC is empowered to  make regulations without regard to the
> wishes of Congress. FCC regulations are not subject to Congressional
> approval."
> ==========
> That's true, but lest we forget, the FCC does report to the overseeing
> Congress.  That's why I wrote to the two Senators from California and my
> US Representative.
>
> I wrote them pressing for an investigation of the FCC on this matter.  In
> brief, my letters said:
>
> "Has the FCC gone brain-dead?  BPL would be an unlicensed service under
> Part 15, yet the FCC requested comments from licensed spectrum users when
> BPL proponents requested an easing of the present power line radiation
> limits.  It should be the other way around, with THEM demonstratiing that
> there would be no symmetrical interference between licensed spectrum
> users and BPL."
>
> That was before the "Nirvana" speech which has made it obvious that the
> FCC is not only brain-dead, but at least one of the commissioners has
> gone bonkers.
>
> 73, de Earl, K6SE
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