Trump will nominate FCC general counsel to be GOP commissioner

The Hill: President Trump will nominate Brendan Carr, currently serving as general counsel at the Federal Communications Commission, to be the third Republican commissioner at the agency, a White House spokesman told The Hill.

Before being tapped as the FCC's acting general counsel earlier this year, Carr was a top advisor to Chairman Ajit Pai when he was a commissioner in the GOP minority.

Carr will likely be a close ally to Pai as the chair pushes his proposal to kill the FCC's Obama-era net neutrality rules.

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