{"id":45624,"date":"2022-03-03T15:10:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T23:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45624"},"modified":"2022-03-03T15:10:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T23:10:55","slug":"split-senate-panel-advances-biden-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45624","title":{"rendered":"Split Senate panel advances Biden nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Commerce Committee on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mqnsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvctybnws_ldgmjjgkgrmndngdqgzz.html?a=&amp;b=47655\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mqnsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvctybnws_ldgmjjgkgrmndngdqgzz.html?a%3D%26b%3D47655&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1646434946852000&amp;usg=AOvVaw08gCFVgMfGprCaB3yLvED8\">Thursday advanced<\/a>\u00a0President Biden\u2019s nominees to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in two tie votes split along party lines.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n (D-N.M.) returned to the Senate before the vote, after roughly a month-long absence while recovering from a stroke, giving Democrat\u2019s the votes they needed to push forward\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hqsmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvsbhcnf_ldgmjjgkgrmndngdqgzz.html?a=&amp;b=47655\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hqsmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvsbhcnf_ldgmjjgkgrmndngdqgzz.html?a%3D%26b%3D47655&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1646434946852000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2gOWtJm6NH0H7A4N4yx3lr\">the long-delayed nominees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He was met with a round of applause from committee members, and welcoming comments from members on both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>But a warm welcome for Luj\u00e1n was the end of the bipartisan consensus during Thursday\u2019s markup. Republicans continued to push back on FCC nominee\u00a0<strong>Gigi Sohn<\/strong>\u00a0and FTC nominee\u00a0<strong>Alvaro Bedoya<\/strong>, both of whom would give their respective commissions a Democratic majority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Commerce Committee on\u00a0Thursday advanced\u00a0President&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45625,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45624\/revisions\/45625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}