Markey, Dingell Probe Possible McDowell Vote

MARKEY, DINGELL PROBE POSSIBLE MCDOWELL VOTE
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
The future chairman of the House Commerce Committee and Telecommunications Subcommittee John Dingell (D- MI) and Ed Markey (D- MA) have asked the FCC's General Counsel to provide a laundry list of information on how he will decide whether or not to give FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell the go-ahead to vote on the AT&T/Bell South merger; they want to be briefed in detail on the "basis on which you will make this critical decision." In addition to the answers to numerous questions about the process, the two legislators want some documentation about prior resolutions of potential conflicts of interest, and a list of the lengths of FCC telecom merger reviews since the 1996 passage of the revised Telecommunications Act.
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* See the Dingell/Markey letter:
http://broadcastingcable.com/contents/pdf/DOC015.pdf