Manchin to vote against Gigi Sohn for US FCC commissioner -statement
WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. Senator Joe Manchin said on Tuesday he will vote against confirming Gigi Sohn as commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), potentially imperiling her nomination by President Joe Biden.
Manchin said in a statement that the FCC needed a leader who would "remain above the toxic partisanship that Americans are sick and tired of, and Ms. Sohn has clearly shown she is not the person to do that."
(Reporting by Katharine Jackson; writing by Rami Ayyub)