Rest of FCC Should Heed O'Rielly Calls for Process Reform, Law Professor Says
FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly is right to press for process reform, which would make the FCC more transparent, said Boston College law professor Daniel Lyons in an American Enterprise Institute blog post Thursday. Lyons gave once of the talks following…
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O’Rielly's remarks on process reform at a Free State Foundation lunch Tuesday (see 1507280052). “Most law today occurs not in the legislature, but in agencies like the FCC pursuant to power delegated by Congress,” Lyons wrote. “FCC process reform is needed in order to facilitate public insight and transparency, and to improve the overall quality of its final product. Process reform should promote a better, more robust dialogue among the commissioners, and between the commissioners and the public. The commission ignores such reforms at its peril, as it jeopardizes the legitimacy of the agency’s final product.”