Parents Television Council to Senate: Confirm FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel

Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel of the Federal Communications Commission, who will have to leave the commission at the beginning of January if the Senate does not vote to reconfirm her, has gotten the endorsement of the Parents Television Council. PTC offered up a quartet of key FCC-related issues as the commission prepares for new Republican leadership, one of which was that the lame duck Senate should immediately confirm her to a second term.

Commissioner Rosenworcel was renominated by President Barack Obama and unanimously recommended by the Senate Commerce Committee, but her Senate vote has been held hostage in the larger Republican vs. Democrat fight over nominations in general and what Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has said was the other side's reneging on a promise to confirm Commissioner Rosenworcel if the Democrats approved Republican commissioner Michael O'Rielly's nomination.