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# Simington Lands at Hudson Institute
- URL: https://broadbandbreakfast.com/simington-lands-at-hudson-institute/
- Published: 2025-07-02T13:41:53.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-11T05:50:32.000Z
- Description: Former Republican FCC Commissioner joins conservative think tank.
- Author: Maggie Macfarlane
- Tags: FCC, Hudson Institute, Nathan Simington, Harold Furchtgott-Roth, Herman Kahn, #with-siderail

WASHINGTON, July 2, 2025 – Former Republican FCC Commissioner **Nathan Simington** has started a new job at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank.

Former FCC Commissioner **Harold Furchtgott-Roth,** also a Republican, announced Simington’s appointment [on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7345479344451989506/?ref=broadbandbreakfast.com): “I am pleased to announce that Nathan Simington, former commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, has joined the Hudson Institute as a visiting fellow.”

After [leaving the FCC](https://broadbandbreakfast.com/simington-announces-early-exit-from-fcc/) on June 6 rather suddenly, the FCC had one Republican (FCC Chairman **Brendan Carr**) and one Democrat (**Anna Gomez**) and no quorum. The quorum developed after Republican FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty was confirmed by the Senate on June 17, 53-45\. 

Simington, a Canadian citizen, joined the FCC in late 2020, not long after becoming a U.S. citizenship.

Furchtgott-Rothis aSenior Fellow and Director of Center for the Economics of the Internet at Hudson. He served on the FCC from 1997 to 2001\. Hudson, a right-of-center research organization, was founded in 1961 by American physicist and nuclear weapons strategist **Herman Kahn.**