Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin late Friday asked the agency’s general counsel to rethink an earlier pronouncement that conflict of interest rules prevent Republican Commissioner Robert McDowell from voting on the $80 billion merger of AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corp.
Martin wants his GOP colleague to vote on the merger in hopes that McDowell will break a deadlock that has prevented the FCC from ruling on the merger.
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