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The
panel is set to consider more than a dozen nominations including
Steven Cliff to head the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA), which has not had a Senate-confirmed
leader since January 2017.
Cliff, a former California Air Resources Board official, has
been serving as deputy NHTSA administrator and overseeing
several agency investigations into Tesla.
The committee is also set to vote on Gigi Sohn for the FCC. If
she were confirmed by the Senate, it would give Democrats
control of the FCC, which is currently split 2-2. The notice
said the nominees to be voted on could change.
Sohn, a former senior aide to Tom Wheeler who served as FCC
chairman under former President Barack Obama, said last year
that it would take at least a year for the commission to
reinstate landmark neutrality rules repealed in 2017 under
then-President Donald Trump. She told senators she does not
favor government regulation of broadband rates.
The committee is to consider Alvaro Bedoya to serve on the FTC,
according to the notice.
In December, the panel deadlocked 14-14 on Bedoya's nomination.
After the full Senate failed to take up the nomination before
the end of the year, Biden renominated Bedoya, a law professor
and privacy advocate, earlier this month.
Bedoya, founding director of Georgetown Law's Center on Privacy
& Technology, is also a former chief counsel of the U.S. Senate
Judiciary subcommittee on privacy, technology and the law.
The agency enforces antitrust law and pursues allegations of
deceptive advertising, including scams.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Kim Coghill and
Shailesh Kuber)
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