National Treasury Employees Union Endorses Sohn for FCC
The National Treasury Employees Union endorsed FCC nominee Gigi Sohn as the Senate adjourned Thursday for a six-week pre-election recess. Sohn’s confirmation process has been stalled since March, but Hill supporters believe her confirmation prospects will improve once the Senate…
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returns in November for the lame-duck session (see 2209130065). The White House is continuing to hold out for a Senate vote on Sohn, but lobbyists told us the Biden administration is considering at least two potential candidates to replace her if she fails to make it through: former acting NTIA Administrator Anna Gomez, ex-Wiley (see 2207010056), and NASA Chief of Staff Susie Perez Quinn. NTEU-affiliated FCC staffers “benefit when there is sound and stable leadership at the agency, and we are concerned with the continued vacancy,” National President Anthony Reardon said in a letter to Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. Sohn “is a highly qualified nominee,” knows “the agency well and she would be an excellent member of the Commission. Furthermore, I feel that any further delay in the confirmation of her nomination threatens to inhibit progress at the FCC to the detriment of both the workforce and the American consumer.” It’s “time for the country to allow this Commission and its employees to be fully staffed and functioning,” Reardon said.