Expand / Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai along with FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, among the FCC’s three Republicans, now speak ahead of the start of a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on August 16, 2018. (credit: Getty Images
The Republican-controlled US Senate today supported a Trump nominee to the Federal Communications Commission, ensuring that President-elect Joe Biden’s FCC is going to likely be deadlocked at 2-2 upon his own inauguration.
The Senate voted along party lines to validate Nathan Simington, a Trump government official who helped draft a request {} the FCC to allow it to be simpler to sue social networking firms such as Facebook and Twitter. Democrats say he’s unqualified for the situation.
“Through his confirmation hearing even the simplest concerns about FCC problems appeared to venture up Nathan Simington. It is clear he’s completely unqualified to help direct the service,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) Composed on Twitter now .
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