Bart Stupak

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin J. Martin is under fire in a new report from an oversight subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The 110-page report, entitled Deception and Distrust: The Federal Communications Commission under Chairman Kevin J. Martin, charges that Martin changed and withheld data and reports to bolster his views, and presided over a demoralized and dysfunctional agency.

No Illegal Activity

In a scathing report released Tuesday, congressional investigators outlined a pattern of mismanagement, dysfunction and abuse of power at the Federal Communications Commission under the agency's Republican chairman, Kevin Martin.

The report -- the result of a nearly yearlong, bipartisan investigation by the House Energy and Commerce Committee -- accuses Martin of manipulating data and suppressing information to influence telecommunications policy debates at the agency and on Capitol Hill.