Trump Nominating CPB Board Members
President Donald Trump intends to nominate a longtime PBS station general manager and a former Obama-administration appointee to the CPB board, for the remainder of six-year terms ending Jan. 31, 2022, the White House announced Tuesday. Rubydee Calvert, longtime GM…
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of Wyoming PBS, has been on the boards of PBS and America’s Public Television Stations. Laura Ross is a lawyer and former chief of staff to the New York attorney general's office. She has been active in national and New York City area Democratic politics, including a past term as Democratic Senate Campaign Committee national finance chairwoman. The Senate previously confirmed her to be an alternate U.S. representative to the U.N.'s 2009-2010 General Assembly. The CPB board manages the “property, affairs and business” of CPB and has input into congressional funding requests, said the corporation's guidelines. Calvert and Ross are subject to the Senate Commerce Committee confirmation process. The committee didn't comment Wednesday.