FCC tips to Republican majority
U.S. Senate unanimously confirms President Bush's latest pick for the Federal Communications Commission.
The U.S. Senate on Friday unanimously confirmed President Bush's latest pick for the Federal Communications Commission for a term lasting until June 30, 2009. The elevation of Robert McDowell, a longtime telecommunications-industry lawyer, restores the FCC's full slate of five commissioners and tips what had been a political balance toward Republicans.
McDowell, 42,