FCC chairman visits White House bowling alley

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski spent Sunday night of Memorial Day weekend at the White House bowling alley, according to newly released visitor logs.

Records show that President Barack Obama returned to the White House from Camp David alone that Sunday night, then turned around and went back the following day. Could there have been a boys’ bowling night?

According to the logs, Genachowski was officially visiting transition economic adviser Michael Warren, but 22 other people were also cleared to enter the White House as part of the evening, all beginning at 5 p.m. and ending at 11:59 p.m., a generic time used by the White House logs for evening guests’ departures.

Obama told talk-show host Jay Leno in March that he had been “practicing” his bowling following an embarrassing gutter ball on the presidential campaign trail in 2008.

The White House declined to comment on whether Obama dropped by the bowling alley while Genachowski and Warren were there. At the time, Genachowski, an old friend of Obama’s from law school, was still awaiting Senate confirmation to be FCC chairman. His office declined to comment.

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