Federal Communications Commission members, from left, Brendan Carr, Michael O'Rielly and Chairman Ajit Pai at the Conservative Political Action Conference. It began as soon as Pai arrived on stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor in Maryland, where he was slated to deliver a short speech. But Dan Schneider, executive director of the CPAC-producing American Conservative Union, said there had been a change of plans. As Pai chuckled, Schneider ceded the podium to Carolyn Meadows, the second vice president of the National Rifle Association. In this case, the award was a “Kentucky handmade long gun,” said Meadows, who admitted the rifle could not be brought on stage.

Source: Washington Post February 23, 2018 23:41 UTC