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Slashdot: Ex-Verizon Lawyer Ajit Pai Confirmed To Second Term As FCC Chair

Ex-Verizon Lawyer Ajit Pai Confirmed To Second Term As FCC Chair
Published on October 02, 2017 at 05:10PM
Congress late Monday approved Ajit Pai for a second term as chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Fast Company reports. “The Senate voted 52-41 (with almost all ‘yea’ votes coming from Republicans) to give Pai a new five-year term retroactive to July 1, 2017. Without the confirmation, Pai would have had to give up the chair at the end of 2017.”
“I am deeply grateful to the U.S. Senate for confirming my nomination to serve a second term at the FCC and to President Trump for submitting that nomination to the Senate,” Pai said in a statement. Pai served as Associate General Counsel at Verizon Communications Inc. in February 2001, where he handled competition matters, regulatory issues, and counseling of business units on broadband initiatives.

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