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Senate Confirms FCC Chair Rosenworcel To Another Term, Narrowly Avoiding a Republican Majority (cnbc.com) 41

Posted by msmash from the closer-look dept.
The Senate voted 68-31 to confirm Federal Communications Commission Chair Jessica Rosenworcel, the first woman to hold that title, to another five-year term, narrowly avoiding a Republican majority at the agency once her current term was set to expire at the end of the year. From a report: Rosenworcel gained the support of key Republicans, including Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Roger Wicker, R-Miss. President Joe Biden waited a historically long period to nominate Rosenworcel as well as former FCC official Gigi Sohn to a commissioner role. That prolonged period threatened to temporarily give the two Republicans on the commission a majority, since Rosenworcel would have had to leave the commission at the New Year if she was not confirmed to another term by then. While the role of acting chair, which sets the agenda for the agency, would go to the remaining Democrat on the commission until a permanent chair could be confirmed, the agency would likely not have been able to push forward anything but the most bipartisan of measures. Even with Rosenworcel's confirmation, the commission is set to remain stalemated on more controversial issues until a fifth commissioner is confirmed. Biden has signaled a desire to return to the net neutrality rules adopted by the FCC during the Obama administration, which were later repealed by the agency under former President Donald Trump. Republicans on the commission have continued to signal opposition to reclassifying broadband providers under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934, which the industry has argued would unfairly open the possibility of price regulation of their services. Companies subject to the reclassification included internet service providers like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast, parent company of CNBC owner NBCUniversal.
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  • Who cares about Dem or GOP labels (Score:4, Insightful)

    by bjdevil66 ( 583941 ) on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @01:52PM (#62056077)

    "Narrowly avoiding a Republican majority" - That's a fallacious sucker's viewpoint.

    Give me someone that actually listens to both sides of ALL types (Dem vs. GOP, corporations vs. citizens vs. government, etc.) and does what's best for the long-term for the people in all walks of life.

    Is that inefficient? Yes. Tough to get things done? Definitely. But inefficient progress is far superior to whiplashes between policy changes by those in power. And it keeps those in power in check.

    • when McConnell blocked Obama's Supreme Court Nominee that signaled the end of 'both party rule'. Trump refusing the accept election results and inciting a coup attempt (more has come out about that, google it, they were seriously trying to overturn the election) was the nail in that coffin. When around 400 bills designed to make it harder for opponents of the GOP to vote and Gerrymandering so absurd it resulted in a lawsuit from the DOJ happened that coffin was buried and we're currently at the after funera

      • Tourists (Score:3, Insightful)

        by ArchieBunker ( 132337 )

        Oh please those were friendly tourists on Jan 6th. Even Andrew Clyde says so. https://www.independent.co.uk/... [independent.co.uk]

        Would you like to see a picture of Andrew Clyde on that day?

        https://twitter.com/SethAbrams... [twitter.com]

        Mr. Clyde looks pretty scared. In fact he screamed in terror when those "tourists" paid him a visit that day. He still maintains nothing bad happened. https://www.gainesvilletimes.c... [gainesvilletimes.com]

        Ronald Reagan is a leftist if you sit him next to current day republicans.

        • Is fond of taking old Reagan quotes and including them in his videos without first attributing them to Reagan because nowadays they would sound like the sort of thing you could call the Communist for, no joke. It took decades of concentrated vilifying our government institutions to get us to the point we are now, will you have people on social security and Medicare demanding social security and Medicare be shut down...

      • The boomers are dying off, and their replacements, Gen X/M/Z, are so broke they're not turning conservative

        When the boomers die off, they aren't taking it with them. The biggest generational transfer of wealth in history will create a lot of Republicans.

        • So what's happening is the boomers are living a long time and their outliving their retirement assets. Meanwhile the cost of the medical care that keeps them alive keeps going up and up. They're doing reverse mortgages and selling their properties and it's not Gen x buying them it's large corporations who then rent it out. This is one of the major problems we have, generational wealth isn't being transferred.

          We're either going to get a new New deal or the elites are going to have to clamp down in order

          • the cost of the medical care that keeps them alive keeps going up and up.

            The cost of medical care for seniors is mostly dumped on the taxpayers.

            They're doing reverse mortgages

            Fewer than 1% of American homes have reserves mortgages.

            it's not Gen x buying them it's large corporations who then rent it out.

            Which means the shareholders own them. That wealth is transferred when the shareholders die.

            generational wealth isn't being transferred.

            How so? Golden coffins? Have boomers figured out how to take it with them?

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Anonymous Coward
        January 6 can't have been a coup attempt, there were no nukes or F-15s present, and Biden assures me that those are necessary to overthrow the US government.
    • You want Jesus Christ on the FCC?

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by amchugh ( 116330 )

      I want someone who will talk to conservatives and liberals, not someone who will talk to the GOP and Dems. That may be a small distinction, but I think it's becoming more and more important. There are two ways to get good policy, crowdsourced majority opinion or relatively unbiased experts. The latter is almost impossible to come by in a biased selection process, and the GOP is increasingly opposed to representational democracy because of the legacy of disproportionate political power held by rural states a

    • Especially when the policies of both major parties seem to be doing the opposite of what the other party wants rather than thinking things through and deciding what's best.

      Usually though it comes down to a policy of "doing what's best for the telecom that sent me the biggest check."

  • The Republican party wields power (Score:3, Insightful)

    by rsilvergun ( 571051 ) on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @02:01PM (#62056111)
    in a way the Democrats consistently refuse to. The old "They go low, we go high". It's how the got a SCOTUS majority and it's why Roe v Wade is on the chopping block now (with full criminalization up next, up to and including more of this [bbc.com]). Gov Desantis in Florida just denied licenses to places where unaccompanied minors are housed when they arrive here illegally. Whatever else you think about immigration that's not the way to go about it. But again, they wield power.

    • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

      by DNS-and-BIND ( 461968 )

      "Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won."

      -- Barack Hussein Obama, three days after being inaugurated

      "You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change it. But don't break it. Don't break what our predecessors spent over two centuries building. That's not being faithful to what this country's about."

      -- Barack Hussein Obama

      • It's a little more complicated than that when our system is set up as rule by land area and then one side has decided that wasn't enough of an advantage so engaged in extreme gerrymandering and voter suppression. Democrats in the Senate represent over 40 million more people than Republicans, and have a razor thin majority so are held hostage to their most conservative member. The system is already broken.
      • bringing up his middle name tells me you're on the right wing (nobody else does), but Obama is an excellent example of what I'm talking about. He stayed within the system and in the process handed the GOP absolute power. Isn't that what you want?

        • "The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names." -- Confucious.

          Hey, maybe starting a "fuck you, I won" non-dialogue wasn't a good idea? It was good when your man was in office but now that it's being used against you it's bad? How does that even work? Why aren't you suffering damaging cognitive dissonance from holding two contradictory ideas at once?

  • "President Joe Biden waited a historically long period to nominate Rosenworcel as well as former FCC official Gigi Sohn to a commissioner role."

  • Um ... thank goodness, I guess I'm supposed to say?

    Is this Slashdot, or Slate?

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