Media Coverage
Source: Law360
Media Coverage
Press Contacts: Erik Cummins, Matt Hyams, Olivia Thomas
01.11.17
As Washington, DC prepares itself for the inauguration of Donald Trump, the Federal Communications Commission is seeing less lobbying activity. For some of its major controversial issues, the agency is instead seeing an increase in ex parte communications, with trade groups accounting for a majority of these, according to Law360.
Washington, DC Communications partner Scott Flick says that during the presidential transition, he thinks FCC meetings will focus on creating a rapport with FCC Republican Commissioners Michael O’Rielly and Ajit Pai. He also suspects the meetings could possibly provide details to the commissioners that they weren’t exposed to under the Obama administration.
“You have to lay the groundwork before you can start making the argument,” he told Law360.
According to Flick, meetings are essential to the rulemaking process, and ex partes can come after meetings where the parties are required to disclose the issues covered in a filing or they can come in the form of letters.
Read more about this on Law360.