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 BEYNON  TAKES  OMB  POST;  FEDER  JOINS  FURCHTGOTT-  ROTH  TEAM 
 For  Immediate  Release  Press  Contact  –  Bryan  Tramont 
 April  9,  2001  202-  418-  2000 


 FCC  Commissioner  Harold  Furchtgott-  Roth  announced  today  that  Rebecca 
 Beynon,  senior  counsel  on  his  staff,  has  accepted  the  position  of  Senior  Advisor  and 
 Assistant  General  Counsel  in  the  General  Counsel’s  Office  at  the  Office  of  Management 
 and  Budget.  Commissioner  Furchtgott-  Roth  said:  “Rebecca  has  one  of  the  finest  legal 
 minds  at  the  FCC.  She  has  been  a  great  asset  to  the  FCC  and  my  office.  She  raised  the 
 level  of  discourse,  and  Commission  decisions  have  been  improved  because  of  her 
 involvement  in  the  process.  She  will  be  sorely  missed.  I  wish  her  all  the  best  at  OMB; 
 the  Administration  will  greatly  benefit  from  her  wise  counsel.” 


 In  light  of  Beynon’s  departure,  Samuel  Feder  has  joined  Commissioner 
 Furchtgott-  Roth’s  staff  as  a  legal  advisor  for  common  carrier  issues.  “I  am  fortunate  that 
 an  attorney  of  Sam’s  stature  has  agreed  to  join  my  team  in  the  final  months  of  my 
 tenure,”  Furchtgott-  Roth  commented.  Since  July,  Sam  has  been  an  attorney  at  the 
 communications  law  firm  of  Harris,  Wiltshire  &  Grannis.  Prior  to  that,  he  worked  at 
 Kellogg,  Huber,  Hansen,  Todd  &  Evans  (1998-  2000)  and  the  Federal  Programs  Branch 
 of  the  Justice  Department  (1996-  1998).  Previously,  Sam  clerked  for  Judge  Edward 
 Becker  on  the  U.  S.  Court  of  Appeals  for  the  Third  Circuit.  He  is  a  summa  cum  laude 
 graduate  of  the  University  of  Michigan  law  school,  where  he  was  a  Notes  Editor  on  the 
 Michigan  Law  Review  and  was  awarded  the  Daniel  H.  Grady  Prize  for  highest  scholastic 
 average  in  his  class.  Sam  holds  an  A.  B.  in  Philosophy  with  a  minor  in  computer  science 
 from  the  College  of  William  and  Mary.  Sam  will  assume  his  responsibilities 
 immediately. 
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