FCC chair to testify before Senate panel after bipartisan blowback over Jimmy Kimmel suspension

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr, who drew sharp criticism from both sides of the aisle over his threats related to Jimmy Kimmel’s show, will testify before the Senate Commerce Committee, a spokesperson for the committee told NBC News.

The panel, which has jurisdiction over the FCC, is chaired by Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, one of the first congressional Republicans to chastise Carr's actions. A date has not been set for the hearing.

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Cruz bashed Carr after he floated potential regulatory action against ABC and its parent company, Disney, ahead of what became a weeklong suspension of Kimmel's late-night show over on-air comments he made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

“I think it is unbelievably dangerous for 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 on his podcast, "Verdict with Ted Cruz," after Kimmel's show was indefinitely suspended. The show was reinstated nearly a week later.

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