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The Directors Guild of America is urging the Senate Commerce Committee to reject Joe Biden’s nominee to the FCC, citing Gigi Sohn’s past stances on copyright. The committee was scheduled to take up Sohn’s nomination on Wednesday, but it will be postponed because of the absence of Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), whose office announced that he suffered a stroke. He is expected to make a full recovery... In confirmed, Sohn would give Democrats a majority in the FCC, giving them the votes needed to restore net neutrality rules or take a harder line against media concentration. But industry lobbyists,...

During this tax season, U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján knows what it's like to feel the pinch of the Internal Revenue Service. Luján last month discovered that his campaign had underpaid payroll taxes for his campaign staff last year and owed the government more than $54,000 — including $13,627 in penalties and interest. His late payments to the IRS are listed on the freshman congressman's most recent campaign finance report — filed coincidentally on Wednesday, which also was the deadline for filing federal income-tax returns. His biggest contributors in the report were national labor unions. The International Brotherhood of Electrical...