Timing, poor White House preparation dim Keeney's chances. (FCC commissioner nominee Regina Keeney may not get confirmation hearing before November 1996 election)

Broadcasting & Cable, August, 1996 by Fleming, Heather

Early confirmation appears unlikely Election-year politics and the administration's failure to "grease the wheels" on Capitol Hill are dimming Common Carrier Bureau Chief Regina Keeney's chances for quick confirmation as FCC commissioner. Her chances have "nothing to do with her and have everything to do with the fact that we are in August going into September in an election year," said communications lawyer Phillip Spector of the Washington firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.

"Given that fact, it is very unlikely that anyone nominated by Clinton is going to be confirmed in a shortened congressional session." The Clinton administration's handling of Keeney's nomination did not score any points among the Senate Republican leadership either....

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