Senate Confirms Tom Wheeler as Next FCC Chairman

Also greenlights Mike O'Rielly for GOP commissioner

The Senate confirmed former telecom lobbyist Tom Wheeler to be the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. It also confirmed Mike O'Rielly to fill the vacant GOP commissioner slot. Both were unanimously confirmed in a voice vote early Tuesday evening, just hours after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) lifted the procedural hold he put on the vote. 

As soon as both are sworn in (probably by the end of this week or early next), the agency will finally be back up to its full strength of five commissioners.

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