The FCC's new boss, Julius Genachowski, met before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in DC yesterday. If you're a fan of sluggish government bureaucracy and wealthy, marginally tech-savvy individuals reading lobbyist talking points, the complete hearing is still viewable on CSPAN.

Committee members, in between pushing pet projects, did take time to slam previous FCC boss Kevin Martin for creating a politicized, and science-challenged FCC -- something they hope Genachowski will change.

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"Fix this agency, and prove to us that the FCC is not battered beyond repair," Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) said during yesterday's hearing. "Show us the FCC can put consumers first and give them confidence that when they interact with the agency they can get a fair response."

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Genachowski should be officially confirmed today, barring complications. While the new FCC boss said all the right things during the hearing, we really won't know much until we start seeing him implementing policy. His first order of business will be to implement a national broadband policy that pleases both consumer advocates and carriers alike.

When he's done there, he needs to unshackle the FCC from its current position as AT&T and Verizon lobbyist lapdog, completely restructure the FCC's wholly flawed data collection methodology, revamp a long list of troubled FCC programs, and if we're lucky -- start steering the FCC from an agency of partisan loyalists and lawyers to one that makes decisions based on, well, technology.

Easy, right?