Senate Commerce Should Approve O'Rielly Renomination This Year, Thune Believes
A Senate Commerce Committee aide confirmed that the committee wasn't planning to consider Republican FCC Commissioner Michael O’Rielly’s renomination at its postponed Tuesday nominations hearing. Commerce never revealed which nominees it planned to consider and called off the Tuesday hearing…
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in a notice issued Friday (see 1411140053). The White House nominated O’Rielly for a full five-year term in October (see 1411130051), and spokespeople for Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., have declined to say whether O’Rielly was on the agenda for this initially scheduled hearing and whether the chairman plans to advance O’Rielly in the lame-duck session. Commerce Committee ranking member John Thune, R-S.D., “believes that Mike O'Rielly's re-nomination should be approved before the end of the year because the Committee has already vetted him and he is more than capable to carry our his duties at the FCC,” the aide told us this weekend.