WASHINGTON—Senate majority leader, Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), said on Thursday he is recommending President George W. Bush nominate his telecommunications aide, Jonathan Adelstein, to fill the Democratic seat on the Federal Communications Commission vacated in September by Gloria Tristani.
If nominated and confirmed by the Senate, both made easier by Daschle’s recommendation, Adelstein would serve out Tristani’s term, which ends June 30, 2003.
Adelstein has worked for Daschle for six years but has worked in the Senate for 14 years. He graduated with undergraduate and Masters degrees from Stanford University, has studied public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and has been a history teaching fellow at both Stanford and Harvard. He is married and has one son.
