Who Really Owns Your Phone?
We've got a busy couple of days ahead in the Senate Commerce Committee, but they're exactly the kind of days you've been fighting to see for a long time.
First, we'll have a nomination hearing for Julius Genachowski, who is President Obama's pick to head the FCC, the right guy to help implement the President's technology agenda, including an open Internet. As part of the Recovery Act, Congress directed the FCC to come up with a comprehensive plan for building out broadband to every household, and to do it by February of 2010.
We need to get Julius confirmed so he can get down to doing what the President and so many of us in Congress know he is capable of -- delivering a national broadband plan...