Mobile Now Still 'Front and Center' as Top Senate Telecom Priority Post-Rosenworcel, Thune Says
Full Senate consideration of the Mobile Now Act (S-19) spectrum bill “will be front and center” as the chamber's top telecom policy priority if it's able to act on Jessica Rosenworcel's FCC nomination, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune, R-S.D.,…
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told us Thursday. President Donald Trump sent to the Senate Thursday Rosenworcel's nomination "for a term of five years from July 1, 2015," the day after her previous term expired. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., had been blocking passage of S-19 until a Rosenworcel renomination was processed (see 1705020061 and 1706140065). “We'd like to get [S-19] done,” Thune said. “I've spoken with [Schumer] about it, and he's expressed his support for it and that [as] soon as we've figured out a pathway forward to deal with the Rosenworcel nomination, they want to work with us to get it passed.” Thune confirmed earlier reports that internal White House vetting of candidates for an open GOP seat at the FCC delayed a nomination announcement, but he hopes “it comes closely on the heels of Rosenworcel because I think it makes sense” to process them together.