Enlarge / FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn addresses protesters outside the Federal Communication Commission building to rally against the end of net neutrality rules on December 14, 2017 in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty Images | Chip Somodevilla )
Democrat Mignon Clyburn is leaving the Federal Communications Commission after nine years of service. As part of the FCC’s Democratic majority from 2009 through 2016, Clyburn repeatedly voted for consumer-protection regulations over the objections of Internet service providers. More recently, Clyburn has been on the losing end of many votes as the FCC’s new Republican majority deregulates the broadband and telecom industries.
Clyburn’s term expired in June 2017, but commission rules allowed her to stay until the end of 2018 if she had chosen to do so. Rather than seek a new five-year term, she announced that today’s FCC meeting would be her last.
Being an FCC commissioner has been “the most incredible opportunity for me,” Clyburn said at the meeting. “In my wildest dreams, if I could have crafted my destiny, I never would have dreamed of this.”
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