Senior Counsel, Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee

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Betsy McIntyre is Senior Counsel for communications and media issues to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, majority staff. Her team provides counsel on issues related to national security in the telecom space, spectrum policy, media policy, and broadband deployment. She has worked in communications law for almost 20 years. Before her current tenure in the Senate, Betsy focused on national security issues at the U.S. Department of Justice, in its role as Chair of the Committee for the Assessment of Foreign Participation in the U.S. Telecommunications Services Sector. Prior to DOJ, Betsy held leadership roles in the Wireline and Wireless Bureaus of the Federal Communications Commission, where she focused primarily on mergers and competition issues. While at the FCC, she also served as an advisor to then-Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, FCC detailee to Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), and FCC detailee to the then-minority staff of the Senate Commerce Committee. She is a graduate of Duke University; Teachers College, Columbia University; and Vanderbilt Law School.