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U.S. senators today voted to confirm FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel to a third term, assuring that Rosenworcel can remain on the commission through 2025 and avoiding an unusual scenario in which Republicans could have held an FCC majority while a Democrat president was in office.
Senators voted 68-31 to support President Joe Biden’s renomination of Rosenworcel, whose second term expired earlier this year and would have been required to step down from the FCC at the end of the month without a confirmation vote. Without a confirmation vote this month, Republicans would have held a 2-1 majority at the FCC at least temporarily while the Senate considered the nominations of Rosenworcel and Gigi Sohn to fill the Democrat vacancies on the five-member commission…
