Commerce Official Picked to Head FCC
WASHINGTON — President Bush will nominate Commerce Department official Alfred C. Sikes as the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission to succeed the deregulation-minded Dennis R. Patrick.
The White House said Wednesday that Sikes, a former Missouri broadcaster, will fill the seat vacated in December, 1987, by Mimi Weyforth Dawson for the remainder of a five-year term that began July 1, 1988.
The commission has had only three of its five-member complement since the 1987 resignations of Dawson and former chairman Mark S. Fowler. Patrick, a Republican who often has clashed with Congress, has been outnumbered by Commissioners Patricia Diaz Dennis and James H. Quello.
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