House Energy & Commerce Committee Names Bloomquist General Counsel

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton
(R-Mich.) has tapped deputy general counsel Michael Bloomquist to become
general counsel of the committee, which has oversight of the FCC.

Bloomquist succeeds Jim Barnette, who has been GC under the
last four GOP chairs. Barnette is leaving the committee.

Bloomquist also served as general counsel to the Join Select
Committee on Deficit Reduction (Upton was a member).

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.