Federal Communications Commission General Counsel Sam Feder late Friday issued an opinion freeing Republican commissioner Robert McDowell to vote on BellSouth Corp.’s $80 billion merger with AT&T Inc.
If McDowell chooses to unrecuse himself from voting on the deal, his vote is expected to break a 2-2 commission stalemate that has prevented the merger from winning the final regulatory approval necessary for the deal to close.
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