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WASHINGTON The White House today said it would nominate Robert McDowell, a telephone association executive, to fill the open seat on the Federal Communications Commission.
McDowell would provide Republicans their first working majority in nearly a year. At least one seat has been open on the FCC since last March when chairman Kevin Martin, a Republican, left a commissioner’s seat open to assume his current post.
A break in the agency’s partisan deadlock could clear the way for Martin to pursue a deregulatory agenda, including lessening restrictions on media ownership.
McDowell,
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