Anxiety is rising among Democrats as President Joe Biden marks nearly nine months in office without naming anyone to serve on the Federal Communications Commission — a lapse that could soon put Republicans in the majority at the agency
The five-member agency is already short one Democrat, leaving the parties in a 2-2 split. Meanwhile, Rosenworcel’s term on the commission lapsed in June 2020, which means she must leave at the end of 2021 unless Biden nominates her and the Senate confirms her to a new five-year term.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has called on Biden to name a Latino person, for instance, for an FCC seat. And progressive advocacy groups want Biden to avoid nominees with ties to the telecom industry — pressure that may have excluded some contenders this year. Several House Democrats had endorsed Biden transition team member Edward “Smitty” Smith — a telecom lawyer who worked to get the T-Mobile-Sprint merger approved during the Trump era — for the FCC chair post.
Left-leaning agency observers say it would be a no-brainer to name Rosenworcel, who has been popular among many Democrats since joining the FCC in 2012 and is known for coining the term “Homework Gap” to describe the divide in parents’ online connectivity. Rosenworcel received a similar groundswell in 2013, when 37 senators urged then-President Barack Obama to name Rosenworcel as chair, back when she’d been at the commission for a year. Obama ultimately picked former telecom executive Tom Wheeler, who has remained influential in Biden circles.
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