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# Senate Invokes Cloture on Roth Nomination
- URL: https://broadbandbreakfast.com/senate-invokes-cloture-on-roth-nomination/
- Published: 2025-07-17T20:59:32.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-11T05:49:35.000Z
- Description: Former Cruz staffer could be running the NTIA as early as next week
- Author: Cameron Marx
- Tags: NTIA, Congress, #with-siderail, Arielle Roth, Ted Cruz, Jacky Rosen, BEAD, Senate, Adam Cassady, John Fetterman

WASHINGTON, July 17, 2025 – The National Telecommunications and Information Administration may have a new leader as early as next week.

The Senate voted Thursday 50-34 to invoke cloture on **Arielle Roth**’s nomination, limiting lawmakers debate on Roth’s nomination to 30 hours, after which a vote on her nomination may be held. 

The vote comes at a critical juncture: States were preparing to submit final proposals for the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program, a central focus of NTIA oversight. Roth would take over just as it begins reviewing and approving those plans.

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The cloture vote was opposed by many Democrats, including Sen. **Jacky Rosen**, D-Nev. Rosen [vowed](https://broadbandbreakfast.com/outraged-democrat-sen-rosen-retaliates-against-lutnick-over-new-bead-rules-nevadas-rescinded-approval/) in June to respond to the Trump administration’s [changes](https://broadbandbreakfast.com/ntia-rewrites-rules-for-bead-forcing-states-to-rebid-broadband-projects/) to the BEAD program by opposing all Commerce Department nominees that oversee broadband policy. Rosen filed a notice that she was intending to object to Roth’s nomination on June 9\. Only one Democrat, Sen. **John Fetterman**, D-Penn., supported the nomination.

Before her nomination, Roth [served](https://broadbandbreakfast.com/ted-cruz-staffer-named-to-head-ntia-cruz-tweets/) as the telecom policy director for Sen. **Ted Cruz**, R-Texas. The former Cruz staffer [was critical](https://broadbandbreakfast.com/incoming-ntia-chief-doesnt-like-beads-fiber-preference-low-cost-mandates-2/) of many Biden-era provisions of the BEAD program, including its prior preference for fiber and what she described as its “woke social agenda.” During her confirmation hearing Roth [vowed to work](https://broadbandbreakfast.com/trumps-ntia-pick-vows-to-finish-the-job-on-bead/) with members of both parties to expedite the BEAD program, though [was vague](https://broadbandbreakfast.com/ntia-nominee-roth-mostly-noncommittal-on-key-bead-issues/) on what changes she would make to it.

Roth’s nomination has been in front of the full Senate since the Senate Commerce Committee [voted to advance](https://broadbandbreakfast.com/senate-commerce-committee-advances-roth-nomination-to-ntia/) it along largely partisan lines in early April. As of Thursday, the NTIA had been under the leadership of acting administrator **Adam Cassady**, who [stepped into the role](https://broadbandbreakfast.com/adam-cassady-named-acting-ntia-head/) in March. 

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The Senate votes 50–34 to invoke cloture on the nomination of ****Arielle Roth** to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, courtesy of C-SPAN's Senate Floor Proceedings.