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a strong divide between current Chairman Julius Genachowski and public interest groups, which early on were among his biggest supporters. “No one can doubt that Julius Genachowski has emerged as the absolute opposite of Kevin Martin,” Feld said. “Unfortunately, this includes a stunning inability to make decisions, combined with an ability to generate his own political opposition by dithering. This does not simply apply to the current fight over FCC broadband authority. It applies to everything, including what was supposed to be his big signature issue from the National Broadband Plan -- getting 500 MHz of spectrum available for broadband. A perusal of the last year of FCC orders and Commission meetings shows a non-stop stream of reports, studies, and proposed rulemakings. The only actual orders involve things so non-controversial and trivial that they hardly constitute tweaks. It does not help that Genachowski manages to give every impression that while he enjoys jetting about to industry conferences and rubbing elbows with the media elite, he does not appear very interested in actually doing the work of Chairman.” Feld noted that this week’s agency meeting includes votes on only two items: Amendments to hearing aid rules and a proposed rulemaking and inquiry on wireless backhaul. “While certainly useful items, the FCC could easily have handled these on circulation,” Feld said. “Meanwhile, critical elements of the Chairman’s agenda, such as auction of the D Block, final rules for the broadcast white spaces, incentive auctions for broadcast television licenses, special access reform -- in short, anything that matters enough to get anyone mad if they lose -- languishes."