Rodgers, Latta Seek NTIA Chief Davidson's Explanation for Delayed Oversight Responses

House Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and Communications Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta, R-Ohio, pressed NTIA Administrator Alan Davidson Thursday to explain why he has significantly delayed responding to their oversight questions. Davidson hasn’t answered "additional questions for the record" (QFRs) that House Communications members sent following a May 15 NTIA oversight hearing, they said (see 2405150020). The deadline for responses was June 30, the lawmakers said, which was 30 days ago. In addition, it took Davidson until the day House Commerce announced the May 15 hearing to respond to follow-up questions House Communications members sent him after a Dec. 5 hearing (see 2312050076), a period of 107 days, Rodgers and Latta said in a letter to Davidson. “It is unacceptable that in order to receive responses to QFRs from an oversight hearing, we must introduce more oversight activity,” they said: “However, as this seems to be the only method of effective motivation, the NTIA will continue to receive additional congressional inquiries until the QFRs from the May hearing are received.” They asked Davidson to give them information by July 31 about how NTIA drafts and vets responses to follow-up questions. NTIA didn’t immediately comment.