Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., plans to schedule a...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., plans to schedule a vote on FCC nominees Ajit Pai and Jessica Rosenworcel on Monday, Reid’s spokesman told us. The Senate is expected to approve the nominees following an announcement from Sen. Chuck Grassley,…
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R-Iowa, on Friday that he would remove his hold after a year-long row over the agency’s handling of the LightSquared wireless project (CD April 30 p1). Reid’s spokesman was optimistic that the Senate would approve the nominees and told us “that pair should pass Monday,” in an e-mail. If approved, Pai would replace Meredith Baker and Rosenworcel would replace Michael Copps as commissioners for five-year terms. Rosenworcel, a Democrat from Connecticut, is currently an aide to Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va. Pai, a Republican from Kansas, was an aide to former Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., has worked as a lawyer at the FCC and is now in private practice.