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Senate Votes To Approve Anna Gomez as 5th FCC Commissioner (fiercewireless.com) 29

The U.S. Senate today approved a nominee to fill the vacant, fifth seat on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The Senate voted 55 to 43 to approve Anna Gomez as the fifth FCC Commissioner. Her term will be for five years from July 1, 2021, so effectively about three years. From a report: Gomez most recently has served as a senior advisor on communications policy at the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy. She was also deputy administrator at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) from 2009 to 2013. The NTIA is not only important as the advisor to the President on national spectrum policy, but the agency is also currently overseeing the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program.
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Senate Votes To Approve Anna Gomez as 5th FCC Commissioner

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  • by dgatwood ( 11270 ) on Thursday September 07, 2023 @02:53PM (#63830392) Homepage Journal

    Finally the Senate actually did its job and allowed a nominee to be voted on.

    • Which is sad because she was not picked for her abilities. This hurts all of us.

  • by rsilvergun ( 571051 ) on Thursday September 07, 2023 @03:31PM (#63830470)
    than anyone realizes. For those who don't know, him and another politician named Newt Gingrich are the architects of a policy that involves obstructing the day to day operations of the government as much as possible so as to cause problems for voters and then blaming their actions on the competing party. Gingrich called it the "Contract With America" (they're great at branding I'll give 'em that) and it started in the 90s.

    McConnell has been the one keeping it going. He's the one that stalled not one but two Supreme Court nominations and then forced an appointment through during Trump's lame duck session, resulting in Abortion being criminalized in many states once again.

    If something like this can happen on McConnell's watch, well, it means he's not watching anymore. He's had some high profile heath issues and my guess is they're an awful lot worse than we're being told...

    Now, it probably shouldn't take someone dying or nearly dying to get the gov't to do basic administrative tasks, but that's another matter entirely...
    • What resulted in abortion being criminalized was decades of democrat legislatures refusing to do their constitutional duty and actually legislate, instead simultaneously relying on the Supreme Court to do it for them while also fearmongering for decades about the always-imminent revocation of the Roe standard... a decision that even left wing justices like RBG explicitly said was bad law carried out in a bad way.

      • But we needed to keep abortion under threat so we could steal votes from Republicans.

      • that's all it would take to pass a law right now. Filibuster proof. It could be on Biden's desk tomorrow.

        But for some odd reason you're entirely focuses on the 52 Senate Dems and 212 House Dems who would all sign onto such a bill.

        You're trying to shift blame. The Republican party and their majority on the SCOTUS did this. With a partisan ruling that cited a 16th century witchfinder general it was so flimsy.

        You're like an abusive spouse who says "baby, why ya gotta make me hit ya!". Your posts ar
        • There are fifty US states. It is their job to legislate their own internal laws. In quite a lot of them they could have passed a law at any time they pleased during the last FIFTY YEARS. The same goes for the many times the democrats held a filibuster proof supermajority in the federal legislature, if you really insist on giving blue states a free pass to refuse to actually legislate their own laws like they're obligated to.

          But for some odd reason you're entirely focused on republicans right here and now to

          • The UNCONSTITUTIONAL filibuster allows 1 senator to hold up everything unless you have a super majority.

            Majority rule is constitutional and specifically deviates with a super majority for stuff like treaties! But their lie has artificially set super majority as the default.

            It's a lawyer hack we're all gullible enough to be suckered by their excuse that they can set rules that any mentally competent person can see is merely a circumvention scheme. WE THE PEOPLE need to punish these lawyers by firing them i

  • We need to see a full financial audit of every FCC Commissioner, before they are approved.

  • Wait, what? "Her term will be for five years from July 1, 2021"--

    Her employment is retroactive???

    OK, are they also going to give her SES back-pay for the past three years?

    • "Her employment is retroactive???"

      No, only the calculation of when her term expires is. She won't be getting any back pay.

      • I have no idea what it means to say she's appointed as of two years in the past. If you have an actual source explaining this, please show it.

        If your answer is "it's logical," I will point out that this is Congress.

        • Re:Retroactive??? (Score:5, Informative)

          by MachineShedFred ( 621896 ) on Thursday September 07, 2023 @05:59PM (#63830800) Journal

          She was appointed two years ago, but cannot actually hold the commission seat until confirmed by the Senate, which just happened.

          Thus, she was appointed to the term for that seat, whether empty or not, but can only sit in it now. The terms are done this way so that each President has the ability to shape these commissions per their policy goals. In the example of the FCC, you have five commissioners - two Democrats, two Republicans, and then the chairperson who is selected by the President (usually of the same political party). All of that breaks down if the Senate decides to fuck around and not confirm people, and the FCC becomes even more of a political football than it already is.

    • All these appointments should come with a $1 annual salary, they all get millions from lobbyists and interests groups anyway.

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