The House Commerce Committee’s request for LightSquared documents from the...
The House Commerce Committee’s request for LightSquared documents from the FCC (CD March 2 p13) was a “big move” toward confirming FCC nominees Ajit Pai and Jessica Rosenworcel, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., told us. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, won’t lift…
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a block he has placed on the nominees until he gets documents on communications among the FCC, White House and LightSquared investor Harbinger. “What I've heard is that Sen. Grassley simply wanted to get his hands on those emails, and he’s getting them” from the House Commerce Committee, the Senate Commerce Committee chairman said after the weekly Senate policy lunches on Tuesday. “It’s my belief that [Grassley] doesn’t care so much where he gets [the documents] from but that he gets them.”