Soon after becoming the president, Trump designated Pai as acting Chairman of Federal Communications. The Senate voted on bitterly divided partisan lines to confirm Pai’s nomination for his second five-year term.In 2010, Pai was one of 55 individuals nationwide chosen for the 2011 Marshall Memorial Fellowship, a leadership development initiative of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.The Senate voted on bitterly divided partisan lines to confirm Pai’s nomination for his second five-year term.Now, internet service providers no longer have to obtain consumer consent before they sell or share sensitive personal data, he rued.Pai graduated with honors from Harvard University in 1994 and from the University of Chicago Law School in 1997, where he was an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review and won the Thomas R Mulroy Prize.He has launched an attack on net neutrality, and is working adamantly toward undoing the open internet order, the lawmaker charged. Chairman Pai has raised severe doubts about his commitment to the average American consumer, Blumenthal said.He comprehends the needs of rural communities in states like mine a product of his own rural upbringing, he said.
Several lawmakers agreed with him.Pai, however defended his work.Appointed by his predecessor Barack Obama, Pai was confirmed unanimously by the Senate in May 2012.The vote was 52-41 for 44-year-old Pai, who has served as a commissioner at the FCC since 2012.However, Senator Blumenthal alleged that Pai has taken one step after another that are contrary to the public interest.Before joining FCC, Pai was a Partner at Jenner & Block, LLP from 2011 until 2012, and Deputy General Counsel, Associate General Counsel, and Special Advisor to the General Counsel at the FCC from 2007 until 2011."In just nine months since becoming Chairman, Pai has also made much-needed reforms to improve transparency at the FCC and to improve the agency’s processes, he said. Pai has focused on the expansion of rural broadband and acceleration of next generation infrastructure deployment."Most disturbingly, Pai is currently attempting to dismantle the Open Internet Order, the net neutrality rules under which millions of consumers currently have access to a free and open internet," Schumer alleged.Senator Shelley Moore Capito said Pai truly understands the need to bring more rural communities online and has shown a real commitment to closing the digital divide in America.Pai forcefully advocated in support of efforts to rescind the FCC’s broadband privacy rules a blatant attack on consumer privacy rights, all the more striking in light of recent concerns about privacy, he said.The son of RG58 cable immigrants from India, Pai grew up in Parsons, Kansas. "Since January, the Commission has focused on bridging the digital divide, promoting innovation, protecting consumers and public safety, and making the FCC more open and transparent," he said.
