Rosenworcel Jokes About Commissioners, Shows Off Building in FCBA Event
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel joked about AT&T's sale of WarnerMedia and fellow commissioners, and briefly toured the agency's new headquarters during Monday's virtual FCBA Winter Celebration -- this year's iteration of the traditional Chairman's Dinner. The event was tied to…
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Women's History Month, and had an array of female former commissioners in brief video addresses. There also was a montage of FCBA members holding up signs naming a woman who had been particularly inspirational to them, with answers ranging from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to elementary school teachers. It's no longer the Chairman's Dinner as "you can't serve dinner over Zoom," Rosenworcel said. "Ten is the new eight," Rosenworcel said as she showed the commissioners' office on the 10th floor of the L Street NE building. She quipped that the building is relatively lonely and staffers generally unpacked, but Commissioner Brendan Carr was seen moving furniture out of his office "after noticing some of it was made in China," and he had applied for "his own rip-and-replace grant." She joked that Comcast's David Cohen being named Canadian ambassador completed the player trade that brought Commissioner Nathan Simington. With AT&T now selling WarnerMedia, DOJ "should retroactively chalk this up as a win," she said. And she joked that some say SCOTUS Justice Stephen Breyer hung on too long before announcing his retirement, but "imagine if they knew about Dick Wiley," who co-founded Wiley in 1983.