FCC's Lloyd Escapes Czar Purge

Mark Lloyd, the Federal Communications Commission's chief diversity officer, was not among the four so-called White House czars whose positions were defunded in the just-passed continuing resolution to fund the government through September.

Lloyd had been among a handful of posts targeted by Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) in a previous CR that did not pass. His reintroduced amendment did make it onto the latest CR.

The posts that were axed, according to Rep Scalise, are the "Health Care Czar" (White House Office of Health Reform), the "Car Czar" (Senior Advisory to the Secretary of the Treasury Assigned to the presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry), the "Urban Affairs Czar (White House Director of Urban Affairs)" and the Climate Change Czar (Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change). Along with Lloyd, also spared was the green jobs czar (special advisor for green jobs, enterprise and innovation, Council on Environmental Quality).