FCC Chairman: Commissioner Baker Told Us She Might be Talking With Comcast/NBCU About Job

In a letter to House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said that FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker contacted the FCC General Counsel's office on April 13 to ask what she should do if she "entered into exploration of employment with NBCUniversal," and by April 18 had recused herself from any matters that would directly bear on NBCU or Comcast. Chairman Genachowski said Baker will be prohibited from lobbying the FCC for two years, as well as from lobbying many other political appointees for as long as President Barack Obama is in office.