{"id":200186,"date":"2021-06-14T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/06\/14\/why-hasnt-this-been-done\/"},"modified":"2021-06-14T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T00:30:00","slug":"why-hasnt-this-been-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/06\/14\/why-hasnt-this-been-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Hasn’t This Been Done?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Biden administration has at this point failed to nominate a replacement for the relentlessy corrupt Ajit Pai as chairman<\/a>. <\/p>\n

To quote the movie, Ocean\u2019s Eleven<\/i>, “You had ONE job.”<\/p>\n

President Joe Biden’s failure to break the Federal Communications Commission’s 2-2 partisan deadlock is reaching a “critical point,” 57 advocacy groups wrote in a letter<\/a> to Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris Friday. <\/p>\n

Nearly five months after his inauguration, Biden has not yet nominated a Democratic FCC commissioner to fill the empty fifth slot. Democrat Jessica Rosenworcel has been leading the commission as acting chairwoman, but she lacks the majority needed to do anything opposed by the FCC’s two Republicans, such as reinstating net neutrality rules and reversing former Chairman Ajit Pai’s deregulation of the broadband industry<\/a>. Even a step like raising the FCC’s broadband-speed standard\u2014which hasn’t changed in over six years<\/a>\u2014will likely require a party-line vote because Republicans prefer a low speed standard for the FCC’s annual report<\/a> on how many Americans lack modern broadband access. <\/p>\n

In early April, over 100,000 people signed a petition<\/a> urging Biden to quickly break the FCC deadlock. Advocacy groups are frustrated that they are still waiting. Why Biden is taking so long is unclear. <\/p>\n

“Given the legislative calendar and the diminishing number of days for hearings and confirmation votes, we have reached a critical point to guarantee the agency charged with ensuring affordable communications access can do its work during your administration,” the groups wrote in their new letter.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is an, “Own Goal,” and. to quote someone who is not named Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-P\u00e9rigord, it is worse than a crime, it is a mistake.<\/p>\n

We don’t want to wait until 2023, when, following 2 years of ineffectual action by Congressional Democrats leads to both the House and the Senate being flipped, when Mitch McConnell will dictate who can be put in that post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Biden administration has at this point failed to nominate a replacement for the relentlessy corrupt Ajit Pai as chairman.  To quote the movie, Ocean\u2019s Eleven, “You had ONE job.” President Joe Biden’s failure to break the Federal Communications Commission’s 2-2 partisan deadlock is reaching a “critical point,” 57 advocacy groups wrote in a letter …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,987,1039,978,985,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-fail","category-incompetence","category-politics","category-regulation","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}