FCC: A Woman on the Verge

摘要

As the daysdwindle down on the tenure of the FCC chairman, some of the women who may be in line for the post, and their allies in Congress, are pressing their case around town. Those close to FCC chairman Julius Genachowski are figuring that he will exit soon after the agency's April 18 meeting, with commissioner Robert McDowell likely leaving near that time as well. In the meantime, the campaign for the first woman to lead the FCC is in full swing, perhaps driven in part by the fact that the names of Tom Wheeler, former National Telecommunications & Information Administration president and a onetime top tech adviser to President Obama (not to mention a big campaign bundler for the administration) and National Telecommunications and Information Adminstration chief Larry Strickling continue to be mentioned as leading candidates for the post.