Democrats end the year in Congress again without confirming President Joe Biden's nominee for the Federal Communications Commission. Biden nominated Gigi Sohn in October, 2021, but since the U.S. Senate has yet to vote on the nomination, the FCC is deadlocked with two Democrats and two Republicans, and nothing much gets done. CEO Chris Lewis of consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge said in October, "It has been a year since President Biden nominated Gigi Sohn to the FCC, which itself was ten months into the first term of the Biden administration. It is long past time to vote on Ms. Sohn's nomination and confirm her to the FCC, where she can put her decades of experience to work for American consumers." Sohn co-founded the Public Knowledge activist group in 2001 and was chief there until taking a position as counselor for then-FCC Chair Tom Wheeler in 2013. Corporations such as Comcast have lobbied against Sohn in fear of facing more regulations, and Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz claims Sohn would censor conservatives even if executives at radical right-wing news networks Newsmax and One America News Network support Sohn's nomination and praise her longtime commitment to free speech. Nothing has been reported about any Biden administration efforts to get a vote on the Sohn nomination in many months.