OTI sent a letter to the Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell, urging the committee to formulate its approach to Sohn's second hearing on February 9 with consideration for Sohn's qualifications and reputation for bipartisanship and consensus-building. OTI also emphasizes how her confirmation would break barriers for the LGBTQ community, how her unnecessary voluntary recusal is a testament to her consensus-building instincts, how companies are weaponizing this recusal process to silence consumer protection officials, how the FCC's 2-2 deadlock is undermining progress on many fronts, and how industry wants to keep the FCC deadlocked for as long as possible.
