The , released Tuesday, accused Martin, a Republican, of conducting FCC business in a closed manner, of suppressing FCC reports that don't support his policy goals and of conducting business using a "heavy-handed, opaque, and non-collegial management style [that] created distrust, suspicion, and turmoil" among the five commissioners.

Martin also failed to provide adequate oversight of the Telecommunications Relay Service Fund, which provides telecommunications service to people with hearing disabilities, according to the report, prepared by the Democratic majority of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Martin ignored evidence that customers of the service were being overcharged by up to US$100 million a year, the report says.

The report accuses Martin of withholding "important and relevant data" from other commissioners in an effort to force cable television providers to offer unpackaged television channels to customers, without customers having to pay for an entire package of channels. Martin attempted to push through a vote on "a la carte" television service after encouraging a February 2006 report on video competition that contracted one the FCC issued in 2004, the House report says.

The commission ultimately failed to act on a Martin proposal on a la carte television service.

Martin's "manipulation of the Second A La Carte Report may have damaged the credibility of the Commission, and it certainly undermined the integrity of the staff," the House report says. "Moreover, as a report to Congress, it was designed to influence congressional decision-making. This last point is particularly troubling."