FCC's Wheeler: No Decision on Departure Date

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler says he has not decided his departure date. That came in a press conference following an abbreviated FCC meeting—the business took about a minute—following the dropping of virtually all the agenda items after Republicans asked him to stand down from "controversial" votes. Chairman Wheeler would not say whether he would stay on, as a commissioner, past when a new chairman was named to make the commission 2-2 until a successor were confirmed for Democratic Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel if she is not reconfirmed in the lame duck Congress and has to leave at the end of December.