HILL TECH & CYBER BRIEFING: Biden Renominates FCC Pick Sohn – Bloomberg Law

If at first you don’t succeed, try in the next Congress. With his party having firmer control of the Senate, President Joe Biden is renominating dozens of candidates to key national security, judicial, and administrative posts, including Gigi Sohn’s appointment to the FCC.

Biden submitted roughly 60 people for jobs in the administration as well as 25 judicial nominees on Tuesday, a White House official said.

Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Chair Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), whose panel has jurisdiction over the nomination, told reporters last month that Sohn, a communications lawyer and advocate, will likely have to go through …