Confirmation Hearing Set For FCC Chairman, Commissioner June 16

On Tuesday June 16, the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on the nominations of: 1) Julius Genachowski to be Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and 2) Robert McDowell to continue as Commissioner of the FCC until July 2014. If the Senate Commerce Committee votes out the nominations, they must still get a full-Senate vote. That usually comes pretty quickly, although that did not prove the case with proposed new NTIA head Larry Strickling, who appeared to sail through the nomination hearing but did not get a vote with the other nominees sharing that hearing.