The House Commerce Committee named David Redl chief...
The House Commerce Committee named David Redl chief counsel of the House Communications Subcommittee. Redl previously was counsel to the subcommittee, and was CTIA director-regulatory affairs before then. Redl will replace outgoing subcommittee chief counsel Neil Fried, the committee said.…
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Fried, whose name was previously floated as a possible candidate to replace former FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell (CD April 10 p1), is planning to work for the MPAA, Capitol Hill and industry officials told us. The MPAA had no comment Tuesday. House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore., said in a news release that Fried has been a “valuable member of our team for many years. From our efforts to free up spectrum to rooting out waste in government to reforming federal agencies, Neil has been there every step of the way.” The committee said Ray Baum, a senior adviser on the subcommittee, will “provide strategic counsel for the committee in an expanded role as senior policy advisor and chief strategist on state initiatives, cybersecurity, telecommunications, and technology.” Before his work on the committee, Baum was the majority leader of the Oregon state House of Representatives and is former chairman of the Oregon Public Utility Commission. The committee named Kelsey Guyselman subcommittee counsel. She was most recently a law clerk for regulatory affairs at CTIA. The committee hired Noelle Clemente to be a member of the committee’s communications office. She was previously a press secretary at the American Action Forum, a sister organization to the American Action Network, a policy group cofounded by former Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn.