"It is important to understand that the FCC's proposed Order is based on a flawed and factually inaccurate understanding of Internet technology," the letter, addressed to lawmakers with oversight of the FCC, reads.
That's the sort of feeble oversight lawmakers enjoy now.
The lawmakers sought greater oversight of state regulators, but Brown refused to give up what he viewed as executive authority.
Water pollution has become a growing concern for some lawmakers as government oversight of polluters has waned.
After the shakeup, the two Republican lawmakers leading the oversight investigation — Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa and Representative Darrell Issa of California — said they would press on.
Mr. Hannon, the chairman of the Senate Health Committee, is also one of several lawmakers who have oversight over agencies that do business with their firms' clients.
Over the past decade, the Minerals Management Service — the federal agency criticized by lawmakers for its oversight of the offshore drilling industry — has financed extensive research into mapping the life of the deep ocean.
The hearing was the latest chapter of the trading debacle, which has drawn new cries from lawmakers for tougher oversight of the nation's banks and spurred wide-ranging inquiries by regulators and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
"At that time, I was trying to sell billions of dollars of securities to JPMorgan Chase in order to reduce our balance sheet and generate liquidity," Mr. Corzine told lawmakers on the oversight panel of the House Financial Services Committee.
He said the commission had heard from lawmakers who said oversight was so lax that the secret $40 billion annual intelligence budget was often approved after 10 minutes of debate.
