Jamie Lovegrove

Commissioner Mignon Clyburn of the Federal Communications Commission said she had been thinking about leaving for some time. By the end of 2018, term limit rules would have forced her out anyway. But the final decision, announced during a commission hearing, was spontaneous. "I was not 100 percent sure when I woke up this morning that this was the day," she said. "But I think it's the right time for me and it's a good time to have a reset to allow someone else to come in and pass that baton."