Welch, Johnson Not Seeking Reelection
House Communications Subcommittee member Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., confirmed Monday he won’t run for reelection in 2022 in favor of seeking the Senate seat of the retiring Appropriations Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D). Welch has been active on broadband and…
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privacy issues; he led revisions of Commerce Committee language in the Build Back Better Act budget reconciliation package (HR-5376) providing additional money to the FCC Emergency Connectivity Fund (see 2109140063). Welch is the fifth House Communications member to announce plans to leave the chamber. The others are subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle, D-Pa.; G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C.; Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill.; and Billy Long, R-Mo. House Science Committee Chair Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, reaffirmed Saturday she won’t run for reelection, either. Johnson and other Science members have been critical of recent FCC spectrum decisions they say will interfere with scientists’ use of federal spectrum. They’re asking the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology to report on ways to protect scientists’ access to spectrum (see 2111090042).