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Tower, Fiber Trade Groups Back Thumann Severs for FCC

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus said the Senate shouldn’t move forward without a Democratic pairing

Jake Neenan

Jake Neenan

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Tower, Fiber Trade Groups Back Thumann Severs for FCC
From left: Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., during a 2023 hearing by J. Scott Applewhite/AP

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 2026 – Several broadband and telecom trade groups want the Senate to quickly confirm President Donald Trump’s pick for a new Republican Federal Communications Commissioner.

Meanwhile Democratic lawmakers in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus urged top Senate Republicans not to advance the nominee, Danielle Thumann Severs, unless she were paired with a Democratic nominee as presidents have historically done.

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