"Democrats are one step closer to having a majority on the Federal Communications Commission for the first time in Joe Biden’s presidency.
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Gomez has been at the US State Department since January 2023 as senior adviser for International Information and Communications Policy and was a deputy assistant secretary at the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) from 2009 to 2023. Gomez, a lawyer, also has experience working at the FCC and Sprint Nextel.
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Biden’s first choice to fill the empty FCC seat was Gigi Sohn, who has spent nearly her entire career as a consumer advocate…
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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) had announced he would vote against Sohn, claiming that she would not be able to rise “above the toxic partisanship that Americans are sick and tired of.” Cruz and other Republicans claimed Sohn would use a post at the FCC to censor conservatives.
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With a Democratic majority, the FCC could reverse former Chairman Ajit Pai’s deregulation of the broadband industry and restore net neutrality rules implemented during the Obama era.
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