Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., has...
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., has heard “absolutely nothing” from the White House about whom it plans to nominate to replace outgoing FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, nor when the administration plans to make an announcement, Rockefeller said. “They…
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are very unpredictable on things like that,” he said in an interview Tuesday. “Just a sort of a strange silence.” Rockefeller added: “I think I know who they are for and I know who I am for. I don’t think it is that close of a choice.” Rockefeller has advocated for his former Commerce Committee aide and current Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel to take the gavel from Genachowski when he retires. He has opposed any nomination of Core Capital Partners Managing Partner Tom Wheeler, who many say is the White House’s lead candidate for the job. In an interview earlier this month, Rockefeller criticized Wheeler’s former work as president of CTIA from 1992 to 2003 and CEO of NCTA from 1979-1984 saying: “A lobbyist is a lobbyist and he was lobbying for some of the things he would be making decisions about” (CD April 10 p3). The White House had no comment.