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24 January
2017
President Donald Trump has appointed
Ajit Pai to head the powerful US communications regulatory agency, becoming the
third Indian American picked for key positions in his administration. The Total Investment & Insurance
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Pai, 44, will be the Chairman of the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the federal authority regulating
cellphone spectrum and services, radio, television, phone, internet and
satellite and cable.
Pai announced his appointment on
Twitter, saying he was told of it on Monday and that "it is a deeply
humbling honour". He added that he would work to bring the benefits of the
digital age to all Americans.
The FCC also has a major role in
controlling the content of television and radio, a sensitive issue given
Trump's contentious relations with the media. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
The agency sets and enforces certain
norms on content like obscenity in TV and conditions like having a certain
amount of local news content for stations to keep their licences.
Underscoring its importance,
Representative Frank Pallone said: "By some measures, the FCC oversees
approximately one sixth of the US economy." The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
Nikki Haley, Trump's nominee for the
cabinet-level post of US ambassador to the UN, is scheduled to be recommended
on Tuesday by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for approval by the entire
Senate for the job. The Total
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Another Trump nominee is Seema Verma,
who is to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency for
government health insurance programmes.
Already a member of the FCC, Pai will
succeed Tom Wheeler, a Democrat, who quit recently.
A free enterprise advocate, Pai has been
a critic of the functioning of the FCC and clashed with its Democratic Party
leadership. Recently he took issue with an FCC report that questioned the
legality of offerings given free of charge for people to access online music,
videos and other content.
He has said he wants to end net
neutrality, which prevents internet service providers from giving special
preferences to certain web sites or accept payment from a web service to give
it priority or better access.
Democrats expressed their concern about
Pai's role in a letter to him.
The senior Democrat on the House
Committee on Energy and Commerce that deals with communications wrote to him
saying his success would depend on being responsive to members of Congress from
both parties and working for consensus on major decisions. The Total Investment & Insurance
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Before his appointment to the FCC in
2012, Pai had worked as a lawyer for the telephone and communications giant
Verizon, the Senate Judicial Committee and the Justice Department.
Pai's parents, both doctors, immigrated
from India.
Trump has also appointed an expert on
strategic communications and political research, Raj Shah, as deputy assistant
and research director on the White House staff.
Another Indian American, Balaji
Srinivasan, is under consideration to head the Federal Drug Administration
(FDA), according to Sean Spicer, Trump's spokesperson.
Srinivasan is a biotechnology
entrepreneur who has been critical of the connections between large
pharmaceutical companies and FDA. He now heads a start-up that deals with
bitcoin, the internet-based currency.The
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