The incoming team of FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler...
The incoming team of FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is “a senior staff team with deep substantive knowledge of telecom policy and a thorough understanding of the FCC’s inner workings,” Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said in a statement…
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Tuesday night (http://1.usa.gov/178r3dM). “With this team, he will be able to hit the ground running on the significant issues facing the agency, including strengthening E-Rate, the first-ever voluntary spectrum auctions to fund the first responder communications network, and shaping the ongoing evolution of our communications networks.” Wheeler was sworn in as chairman Monday and announced his staff choices then as well as initial plans to potentially overhaul FCC process (CD Nov 5 p1). House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., applauded Wheeler for taking on such considerations, while calling for congressional action. “I welcome Chairman Wheeler’s openness to looking at ways to improve transparency and accountability for the American people and those that have business before the commission,” Walden said (http://1.usa.gov/1grNuTJ). “In the meantime, we will continue working to reach bipartisan agreement on the FCC Process Reform Act, and similarly hope that the Senate will soon take up the FCC Consolidated Reporting Act, which was unanimously approved by the House this summer."