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by overcooked
3348 days ago
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Appointing the chairman is really one of the few influential bits that the President can do with the FCC. The chair sets the agenda for commission meetings, manages the commission's ~1700 employees, and sets enforcement priorities. Other than actually adopting new regulations (which requires a vote by all commission members), the FCC chair IS the FCC. Also, while Commissioners Pai and O'Rielly were nominated by Obama, they were chosen in consultation with Republican congressional leadership (because the FCC must remain bipartisan by law). I'm not sure that one can say that they are "Obama appointees" in the same way that judicial appointees are. |
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