Rockefeller Finally Weighs In on Wheeler FCC Nom

Statement from Commerce Committee chair highly anticipated

Maybe because everyone in Washington already spent months chewing over Tom Wheeler's qualifications as the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission—or maybe it was because Congress was on a brief recess—Congressional reaction to the Wheeler's official nomination was sparse. But hotly anticipated was a statement from Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), who campaigned heavily for his former staffer and FCC commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel by rounding up 36 other senators to sign a letter to President Obama the day Julius Genachowski announced he would be leaving.

Rockefeller's statement finally came this afternoon, two days after President Obama nominated his former ally and fundraiser to head the agency, and two days after the usual barrage of statements from public interest groups, associations, and companies regulated by the FCC.

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