FCC Chairman on Short-List for Cabinet Post: Report

Julius Genachowski, current chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), is under consideration to become the Obama administration’s new secretary of Commerce, Washington blog The Hill reports. Genachowski presided over the Commission’s contentious adoption of net neutrality rules in December. Both the substance of those rules and the FCC’s authority to adopt them is now being challenged in courts as well as in Congress. The Hill, citing unnamed tech-industry sources, reports that Genachowski is on a short-list of candidates to succeed current Commerce secretary Gary Locke, whom President Obama plans to name as U.S. ambassador to China.