Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., respects...
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., respects President Barack Obama’s decision to nominate Tom Wheeler as FCC chairman (CD May 1 p1), Rockefeller said in a news release Friday. Rockefeller said Wheeler has a “long and diverse career in…
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both communications policy and business. In the next two years, the FCC will work toward promoting universal access to broadband, expanding the E-Rate program, and making sure incentive auctions generate funds to create a communications network for our first responders. I look forward to meeting soon with Mr. Wheeler and discussing the challenges facing the Commission.” The Senate Commerce Committee hasn’t scheduled a meeting to consider the nomination of Wheeler, whose former lobbying roles at CTIA and NCTA Rockefeller had railed against in recent months (CD April 10 p3). Rockefeller previously urged Obama to pass the gavel to his former Commerce Committee aide, Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, in a letter signed by 37 Democratic senators.