Brendan Carr to testify before Senate committee after drawing criticism for Jimmy Kimmel comments

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr will testify before the Senate Commerce Committee, a committee spokesperson confirmed.

Carr has drawn bipartisan criticism over his role in the Trump administration’s pressure on ABC and its affiliates to cancel comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s show. An exact date for the hearing has yet to be released. Semafor reported the hearing.

The committee is chaired by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who was one of the most outspoken Republicans against Carr’s actions.

“I think it is unbelievably dangerous for the government to put itself in the position of saying we’re going to decide what speech we like and what we don’t, and we’re going to threaten to take you off air if we don’t like what you’re saying,” Cruz said last month

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