Rockefeller’s Final Years in Senate Will Be Intense

Powerful Senate leader won’t seek sixth term

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) may be retiring, but he’s going to go out with a bang.

In his formal announcement speech today, the high-ranking Democrat signaled that he intends to “keep up this intensity” until he exits the Senate in 2014. Several times he referred to a “no holds barred approach.”

As chairman of the Commerce committee and the No. 2 member on the Finance committee, Rockefeller has a lot of clout to pursue his pet issues, including those that impact the media, advertising and telecommunications industries.

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