FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, widely expected to stay in the...
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, widely expected to stay in the post through early 2013, said emphatically Wednesday he has no plans to leave before the upcoming election. “I am not planning on leaving,” Genachowski said in a news conference after…
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the agency’s monthly meeting. “I am working hard everyday on items that are near-term, medium-term and long-term. It’s an important agency, an important job and I'm working very hard everyday.” Genachowski was also asked about a vote by the House Appropriations Financial Services Subcommittee approving a FY2013 spending bill with a provision that cuts funding for the FCC to implement and enforce its political file rule. (See item below.) “We'll, of course, let the process in Congress run its course,” he said. “The order that we adopted is one that fulfills the letter and spirit of the Communications Act, the long history of our rules. Moving information from dusty paper files to online is a simple, obvious, 21st Century thing to do.”