After 15 minutes, with the gallery inside the Russell Senate Building filling with interested spectators and members of the press, not one Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation had appeared on the dais. Finally, at 11:15am Eastern, a politically partisan nominations hearing featuring a potential new vote-maker on the FCC began — but without the Committee’s Chairman and Ranking Member present and with plenty of verbal protests from Democrats over the very nature of Danielle Thumann Severs‘ consideration.
