FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel Farewell Statement
Based on today’s presentations, I don’t think there is any question that, on every count, we did the work and delivered for the people of the United States. Working together, we were able to build the largest broadband affordability effort in our Nation’s history. Working together, we launched the first-ever Space Bureau and created a Single Network Future that is going to change communications around the globe. Working together, we built broadband maps that are light years ahead of anything that came before. Working together, we put national security and cybersecurity front and center, for the first time in history revoking service authorizations and removing insecure equipment in our networks. Working together, we closed the Homework Gap like never before, helping millions of students and making sure wireless hotspots are available for loan in every school and library across the country. Working together, we made communications more just for more people in more places with texting to 988, wireless emergency alerts in more than a dozen languages, and safe connections for survivors of domestic violence. Working together, we finally made prison payphone rates just and reasonable. And we built a new version of Amber Alerts to help the women and girls who go missing on Tribal Lands. Working together, we also made communications more secure, with the first-of-its-kind U.S. Cybersecurity Trust Mark coming soon to billions of internet of things devices. These actions, and all the others that were mentioned today, fill me with a real sense of pride.... To me, today’s meeting tells a story. And it is the story of what makes the FCC special. I think it comes down to three things:
- At the FCC, we help write the future: If you look at every great challenge before our country—how we grow our economy, how we learn, how we treat the sick, how we heal our planet, how we govern ourselves—communications technology is part of the solution.
- The “power of all”: So many of the actions you heard about today are an outgrowth of the agency’s founding mandate to make communication available to all the people of the United States.
- People: The FCC staff is not just uncommonly talented and knowledgeable about communications law and policy, it’s also an exceptional group of public servants. I think public service is a special calling.
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel Farewell Statement