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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr told a Senate committee that the FCC “is not an independent agency”; the agency removed “independent agency” from its site as he testified— FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said in Senate testimony Wednesday that the agency he leads “is not an independent agency, formally speaking.”
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