Hatch: Lott not playing payback at FCC.(Brief Article)
Multichannel News, March, 2002 by Hearn, Ted
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Trent Lott's (R-Miss.) move to torpedo Jonathan Adelstein's Federal Communications Commission nomination was unrelated to the controversy over a new federal judgeship for a Lott ally, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said last week.
"That was done far in advance of this," Hatch said March 17 on the CBS program Face the Nation. "Sen. Lott does not feel that person is qualified for that job and I heard that before this came up."
The 39-year-old Adelstein is a top aide to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.). President Bush intends to nominate Adelstein to fill a Democratic vacancy at the FCC, but the Senate had not yet received the nominating papers, a Daschle aide said two weeks ago.
Lott said he would try to block...
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