{"id":11490,"date":"2021-01-21T21:24:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T21:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=153133"},"modified":"2021-01-21T21:24:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T21:24:12","slug":"common-cause-welcomes-jessica-rosenworcel-as-acting-chairwoman-of-the-federal-communications-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/21\/common-cause-welcomes-jessica-rosenworcel-as-acting-chairwoman-of-the-federal-communications-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Cause Welcomes Jessica Rosenworcel as Acting Chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; Today, President Biden designated FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel to serve as Acting Chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Statement of Michael Copps, Former FCC Commissioner and Common Cause Special Adviser,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden has appointed Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel as Interim Chair of the Federal Communications Commission.&nbsp; She is ideal for the job.&nbsp; I know, because we worked together when she led my staff while I was a commissioner there.&nbsp; She knows the FCC from the bottom up and she understands how to make good things happen there.&nbsp; She was called from my staff to the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, where she was responsible for telecom and media policy.&nbsp; Then she was appointed a commissioner at the FCC and has demonstrated a mastery of the issues that has been seldom matched.&nbsp; Whether it\u2019s bringing broadband to every home in America, encouraging internet availability for our schools, making wise decisions for the utilization of spectrum, contesting telecom and media monopolies, battling mis- and dis- information, she has a combination of vision and practicality that make her perfect for the chairmanship.&nbsp; She is a true advocate of the public interest.&nbsp; Congratulations, Jessica.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/21\/common-cause-welcomes-jessica-rosenworcel-as-acting-chairwoman-of-the-federal-communications-commission\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, President Biden designated FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel to serve as Acting Chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission. Statement of Michael Copps, Former FCC Commissioner and\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11491,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490\/revisions\/11491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}