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published on the Web site Technology Liberation Front. Eight of the visits came after he became chairman of the commission, the other 39 before. “Move over, health care reform, climate change, and the economy. Judging by White House visits by various government agency heads, the Obama administration instead appears preoccupied with the re-regulation of communications, media, and the Internet,” they wrote. “Chairman Genachowski obviously has an audience with those at the highest levels of power, including the President himself, but this raises questions about just how ‘independent’ this particular regulator and his agency really are.” Genachowski met twice directly with President Barack Obama. According to the records, he made many more visits than any member of the Cabinet. But, we've learned, the logs appear not to have captured all visits during that period. Commissioners Michael Copps, Robert McDowell and Jonathan Adelstein, for example, all went to the White House for a DTV round table that does not show up in the records, FCC sources said. The record apparently was not intended to be all- inclusive. Obama advisor Norm Eisen explained on the White House blog that the administration plans, starting in December, to publish a list of visitors on a voluntary basis. Pending that, it decided to publish information for the hundreds of individuals on which it had Freedom of Information Act requests.