{"id":1356680,"date":"2022-03-03T11:07:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T16:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1356680"},"modified":"2022-03-03T11:08:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T16:08:03","slug":"democrats-force-bidens-left-wing-regulator-picks-to-senate-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-force-bidens-left-wing-regulator-picks-to-senate-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Force Biden\u2019s Left-Wing Regulator Picks To Senate Floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-force-bidens-left-wing-regulator-picks-to-senate-floor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1356680&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday voted to advance the nominations of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) pick Gigi Sohn and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) pick Alvaro Bedoya, sending the nominations to the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<p>Both nominations were deadlocked at 14-14, but under Senate rules can advance to the floor.<\/p>\n<p>During their confirmation process Sohn and Bedoya each attracted stiff <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/12\/joe-biden-gigi-sohn-ftc-fcc-alvaro-bedoya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opposition<\/a> from committee Republicans, who highlighted past partisan statements as well as potential conflicts of interest as reasons to oppose their nominations.<\/p>\n<p>Bedoya was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/16\/joe-biden-ice-federal-trade-commission-alvaro-bedoya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criticized<\/a> during his hearing for past tweets, public statements and published work in which he criticized U.S. Immigration and\u00a0 Customs Enforcement (ICE) for alleged \u201cdomestic surveillance\u201d of American citizens. Sohn drew the ire of Republicans for <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/12\/gigi-sohn-federal-communications-commission-ron-johnson-marsha-blackburn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appearing<\/a> to call for government censorship of conservative media when criticizing Fox News, as well as her history of left-wing activism.<\/p>\n<p>Sohn previously served as director of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/26\/gigi-sohn-fcc-locast-roger-wicker-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Locast<\/a>, an online streaming service that retransmitted local television broadcasts over the internet. The organization was shut down in October 2021 after broadcasters sued and a judge ruled the service to be in violation of copyright law, requiring it to pay $32 million in damages.<\/p>\n<p>It was later revealed Locast cut a favorable deal with broadcasters to reduce liability just one day after Sohn\u2019s nomination. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/01\/gigi-sohn-federal-communications-commission-joe-biden-fcc-nominee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Biden\u2019s FCC Nominee With History Of Net Neutrality Activism Set For Tough Hearing)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7322193\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7322193\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7322193\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/bedoya-e1637096026669.jpg\" alt=\"Alvaro Bedoya, nominee selected by President Joe Biden for the Federal Trade Commission. (Screenshot\/YouTube\/Ford Foundation)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/bedoya-e1637096026669.jpg 1890w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/bedoya-e1637096026669-279x120.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bedoya-e1637096026669-620x266-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bedoya-e1637096026669-768x330-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bedoya-e1637096026669-1536x659-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/bedoya-e1637096026669-2048x879-1.jpg 2048w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7322193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alvaro Bedoya, nominee selected by President Joe Biden for the Federal Trade Commission. (Screenshot\/YouTube\/Ford Foundation)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sohn initially <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/13\/gigi-sohn-federal-communications-commission-locast-jon-tester-kyrsten-sinema\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">struggled<\/a> to win over Senate Commerce Democrats, requiring several meetings to earn the backing of several members, including Montana Sen. Jon Tester. Former Democratic North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp came out in <a href=\"https:\/\/onecountryproject.medium.com\/sohn-is-wrong-for-fcc-and-rural-america-69762fb4302f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opposition<\/a> to Sohn\u2019s nomination, arguing she would disfavor rural broadband deployment.<\/p>\n<p>The nominations will now move to the Senate floor and are set to hand the Democrats a majority on both the FCC and FTC if Sohn and Bedoya are confirmed. The agencies had previously been split 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>Bedoya\u2019s presence at the FTC would likely help Chairwoman Lina Khan pursue stronger antitrust enforcement, particularly in technology markets, where she has faced opposition from the agency\u2019s Republican commissioners. Sohn is a strong <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/29\/joe-biden-federal-communications-commission-gigi-sohn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">supporter<\/a> of a return to a net neutrality regulatory framework under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934, and she would likely be a voice advocating for stricter government oversight of broadband networks at the FCC.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday voted to advance the nominations of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) pick Gigi Sohn and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) pick Alvaro Bedoya, sending the nominations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1356680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1356680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1356680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1356680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}