Screenshot FCC Chairman Brendan Carr faced his first congressional grilling over his comments about Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday, as Democrats claimed that he has operated the agency to go after critics of Donald Trump. Carr at once claimed that he was not threatening broadcast licenses with the Kimmel comments, but at the same time defended the FCC's right to wade into broadcast content. "You are kind of tiptoeing through the tulips here," said Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI), as he tried to pin Carr down on his Kimmel comments and his investigations of broadcasters.