Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Michael K. Powell is an American politician and a Republican. He was appointed to the Federal Communications Commission by President Bill Clinton on 3 November 1997. President George W. Bush designated him chairman of the commission on 22 January 2001. Powell is the son of Secretary of State Colin Powell. Powell was a officer in the United States Army, but was unable to serve sustaining an injury during a training mission which left him spending year in the hospital. He also served as an expert advisor to the Secretary of Defense. After attending law school, Powell worked as a private attorney as well as in the antitrust division of the justice department. As the chairman of the FCC, Powell has been a proponent of relaxing regulations on media ownership. On 2 June 2003, the FCC, under Powell's direction, approved rule changes to do just that (see concentration of media ownership). External links Biography from FCC Biography from Forbes magazine Interview with the Online Journalism Review This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.