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Re: Comcast merger FAQs

At 12:55 AM -0500 11/20/02, A. Joseph Ross wrote:
>
>Yes, the law requires any President to appoint a certain number of 
>FCC commissioners from
>the opposite party, and therefore Powell was one of Clinton's 
>choices for Commissioner --
>but not for chair.  He became chair when Bush took office.

I think the law only requires that a certain number of the 
commissioners not be from the same party as the president.  Thus, a 
third party member or an independent could be appointed to such a 
seat.

-- 
Larry Weil
Lake Wobegone, NH