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Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who has blocked President
Barack Obama's nominee for chairman of the Federal Communications Commission,
said on Thursday he hoped to meet with the nominee "soon" to
discourage him from using FCC power to force sponsors of political ads to disclose
their financial donors, according to Reuters.
During the debt and budget debates that dominated Congress
last week, Cruz used his prerogative as a senator to block the chamber from
voting on the nomination of Tom Wheeler to lead the FCC, which oversees
communications industries in the United States . The FCC has five
seats, two of which are vacant.
Cruz's move reflects Republican questions over whether
Wheeler would push to require independent groups to disclose more information
about how they pay for TV and radio ads.
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