1. Ajit Pai is married to Janine Van Lancker, an allergist in the Washington DC area.
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6. Ajit Pai discussed how the FCC can help promote economic growth and enhance job creation in the information and communications technology field by adhering to three basic principles: the FCC should be as nimble as the industry it oversees; (2) the FCC should prioritize the removal of regulatory barriers to infrastructure investment; and (3) the FCC should accelerate its efforts to allocate additional spectrum for mobile broadband.
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8. Ajit Pai was confirmed by the US Senate for the additional five-year term on October 2, 2017.
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9. Ajit Pai was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate on May 7, 2012, and was sworn in on May 14, 2012, for a term that concluded on June 30, 2016.
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11. Ajit Pai was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate on May 7, 2012, and was sworn in on May 14, 2012, for a five-year term.
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12. Ajit Pai has served in various positions at the FCC since being appointed to the commission by President Barack Obama in May 2012, at the recommendation of Mitch McConnell.
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15. Ajit Pai lives in Arlington, Virginia, with Van Lancker and their two children.
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17. Ajit Pai opposed the FCC imposition of "safe harbor" of 12 cents with a cap of 21 cents on private ICS providers like GTL and CenturyLink Public Communications, arguing instead for a "simple proposal to cap interstate rates, with one rate for jails and a lower rate for prisons" that are cost-based to protect providers and ensure "some return on investment.
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23. Ajit Pai wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal in 2014 criticizing a proposed FCC study of the news-gathering practices of media organizations.
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25. Ajit Pai gave his first major speech since taking office on July 18, 2012, at Carnegie Mellon University.
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27. In 2011, Ajit Pai was then nominated for a Republican Party position on the Federal Communications Commission by President Barack Obama at the recommendation of Minority leader Mitch McConnell.
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28. In 2010, Ajit Pai was one of 55 individuals nationwide chosen for the 2011 Marshall Memorial Fellowship, a leadership development initiative of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
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31. Ajit Pai is a proponent of repealing net neutrality in the United States and, on December 14, 2017, voted with the majority of the FCC to reverse the decision to regulate the internet under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934.
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32. Ajit Pai was confirmed by the US Senate for an additional five-year term on October 2, 2017.
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