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With Congress expected to approve FCC’s reorganization soon, FCC ...

With Congress expected to approve FCC’s reorganization soon, FCC Common Carrier Bureau, to be renamed Wireless Competition Bureau, held private ceremony Mon. honoring bureau’s history. Employees with 20 or more years of service were honored and staff members played…

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guessing game involving “secret facts” about those long-time employees, such as revelation by member of Competitive Pricing Div. that he once babysat Gwyneth Paltrow or by another that he went to high school with Clay Henry, S.C. firefighter who has gained celebrity for losing weight eating Subway sandwiches. Bureau Chief Dorothy Attwood recounted highlights of bureau’s accomplishments, accompanied by playing of appropriate songs, such as “8 Days a Week” as she described staff work on Sec. 271 applications or “Jive Talkin” by Bee Gees to accompany description of bureau’s accounting safeguards work with carriers. “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” accompanied discussion of rural broadband policy goals and “Long Distance Runaround” by Yes was played during discussion of line items carriers put on phone bills to universal service contributions. “Keep Them Separated,” lyric from Offspring’s “Come Out and Play” was used in talk about separations reform.