Dear Mr. President-elect,
I am writing on behalf of the members of the Fraternal Order of Police to ask you to appoint Brendan T. Carr as the next Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Mr. Carr currently serves as a Commissioner on the FCC and has been with the agency since 2012. He previously served as the agency’s general counsel prior to being nominated and confirmed as a Commissioner in August 2017. He was confirmed by the Senate for a full five-year term in 2019. Both confirmation votes were unanimous.
Mr. Carr has more than 20 years of private and public sector expertise in communications and technology policy as well as a deep institutional knowledge of the FCC. As Commissioner, he is known as “Mr. 5G” for his passionate commitment to cutting through the bureaucratic red tape to get 5G technology into the marketplace. He was instrumental in the FCC’s recent action to authorize the use of the 4.9 GHz spectrum within the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network (NPSBN) and granting a nationwide license to the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) to administer it.
We know that Brendan T. Carr will be an outstanding FCC Chairman and hope you will give him every consideration as you assemble your next Administration. On behalf of the more than 377,000 members of the Fraternal Order of Police, I thank you for considering our views on Commissioner Carr. If I can provide any additional information on this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me or Executive Director Jim Pasco in our Washington, D.C. office.
Sincerely,
Patrick Yoes
National President