Article: Irving poised to take top spot at NTIA. (Larry Irving; National Telecommunications and Information Administration)

After having spent six years in the shadow of his boss, House telecommunications subcommittee chairman Edward Markey (D-Mass.), Larry Irving is poised to step into the spotlight as the prospective chief of the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration.

In that job, the 37-year-old Irving, whom President Clinton was nominated Feb. 12, but who is still awaiting Senate confirmation, will be the key architect in crafting the Clinton administration's specific telecommunications policies and positions on, among other things, the development of a national information highway and the role of telephone companies in cable television and ...

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