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Bush Gives FCC a GOP Majority

Via Red Herring.

The White House said it will fill an eight-month-old vacancy on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission with Republican regulator Deborah Tate, giving Republicans a 3-2 majority on the panel more than a week after a crucial vote on the future of the telecommunications industry.

President Bush will also nominate Michael Copps, one of the two Democrats on the commission, to serve for the remainder of a five-year term that expires in June 2010.

The commission has operated with four commissioners, two Democrats and two Republicans, since the resignation of former Chairman Michael Powell in March. Ms. Tate's appointment will add a third Republican vote.

posted by Fergie @ 11/10/2005 10:03:00 AM