Broadcasting & Cable: D.C. Applauds Chairwoman Rosenworcel Confirmation to FCC

Washington was quick to weigh in after the Senate voted 68 to 31 to confirm FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel to a new five-year term on the commission. …

“It was a long and winding road for Jessica Rosenworcel, but she stayed the course and good sense has now finally prevailed with today’s Senate vote,” said Common Cause special advisor Michael Copps, himself a former acting FCC chairman and Rosenworcel’s former boss when she was on his FCC staff. “Jessica faces a daunting agenda as chair but she has the experience and dedication to make historic progress leading the FCC. Past commission mistakes must be corrected and new trails blazed to provide our country with the communications ecosystem our democracy so clearly must have.”

Copps also put in a plug for confirming a third Democrat to the commission so Rosenworcel has a majority. “Needed now is a fifth commissioner, so that a full FCC can get on with its important mandate of protecting the public interest.”