Broadband companies are spending an 'unseemly amount of money' to sink key nominee to FCC, critics

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President Joe Biden has articulated an ambitious regulatory agenda aimed at reining in monopoly power and reducing prices Americans pay for everyday goods and services, but delays in nominations to key regulatory positions have opened the door for opponents of tougher industry oversight to thwart these efforts.

Take the example of Gigi Sohn, Biden’s pick to fill the open seat on the Federal Communications Commission, who if confirmed would swing the agency into Democratic control for the first time in more than six years.

Sohn’s supporters say she has powerful enemies in the internet-servicing providing industry that have helped organize a diverse opposition to her candidacy because she supports heavier regulation of the market for broadband internet.

Greg Guice, director of government affairs at Public Knowledge, the public advocacy group Sohn founded that promotes competition in markets for digital services, argued that cable companies are behind two ostensibly “grass-roots” campaigns against her, mounted by the Hispanic and Latino civil rights group League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the One Country Project, a rural-focused nonprofit organization founded by centrist former Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota.

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