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Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, praised his congressional aide,...

Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, praised his congressional aide, Michael O'Rielly, Wednesday but declined to say whether he would endorse O'Rielly as a candidate to replace outgoing FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell, according to Cornyn’s spokesman. “Mike’s a talented and…

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valued member of my staff, and he has a bright future in whatever he chooses to do,” Cornyn said via his spokesman. Government and industry officials on Wednesday named O'Rielly as a likely candidate to replace McDowell, also mentioning House Commerce Committee aide Ray Baum; Neil Fried, chief counsel to the House Communications Subcommittee; and former State Department official David Gross, now at Wiley Rein (CD March 21 p1).