FCC Chairman Moves to End AT&T Impasse
Jim Puzzanghera writes in The Los Angeles Times:
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission moved Friday to break an impasse over approval of AT&T Inc.'s purchase of BellSouth Corp. by trying to force a commissioner who recused himself to cast the tie-breaking vote.More here.
In a letter to congressional leaders, Chairman Kevin J. Martin said he had asked the FCC's general counsel to review Commissioner Robert M. McDowell's recusal. A fellow Republican, McDowell has declined to participate in the review of the deal because he had worked for a trade association of smaller phone companies that opposes the roughly $80-billion merger.
With McDowell on the sideline, the commission has been split evenly between Republicans and Democrats. Martin said he wanted the FCC to approve the deal unconditionally, and Republican Deborah Taylor Tate was expected to back him.
posted by Fergie @ 12/02/2006 01:10:00 PM
1 Comments:
Now I wonder how they will deal with the mailjamming scandal in Manchester? This is the third time that has happened.. -- NH
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