The announcement of Jessica Rosenworcel’s departure as FCC commissioner may have been premature. On Wednesday, January 4th, President Barack Obama renominated her to serve a second term.
“I applaud President Obama’s reappointment of Jessica Rosenworcel to the FCC,” said FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, “and hope that Congress will act quickly to confirm her nomination,”
When President-elect Donald Trump announced the priorities for his first 100 days in office, he included a stipulation that for every new federal regulation an agency makes; two existing regulations MUST be eliminated.
On October 21, 2015 the FCC announced that they would begin publishing the telemarketing and robocall complaint data that they receive on a weekly basis.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler recently announced that he plans on naming Alison Kutler as Acting Chief of the Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau (“CGB”), effective June 1.