Comcast's Cohen: Telecom Likely Low On Legislative Agenda

Comcast executive vice president David Cohen, Comcast's top Washington executive, said he has "high hopes" for the commission under new chairman Julius Genachowski, including an Internet openness policy that recognizes the need for reasonable network management. Cohen also expects telecom issues to be relatively low on Congress' agenda. In an interview for C-SPAN's Communicators series, Cohen said Congress will have a lot on its plate before it gets around to FCC reform issues that have long been on the radar screen of one of those legislators, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV). Cohen noted that if you were to poll every member of Congress, he would be hard-pressed to find telecommunications issues on a list of the top 100 issues they felt they needed to deal with in the next couple of years.