Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez recommended that the president veto a resolution of disapproval overturning the Federal Communications Commission's loosening of the ban on newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership if that resolution is passed by the Senate and House.

The Senate Commerce Committee is scheduled to consider the unusual resolution in a hearing Wednesday. The House launched a similar effort.

Pushed by media-consolidation critic Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and supported by among others Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), the resolution would essentially invalidate the FCC rule change, which was approved Dec. 18 over the protests of Dorgan and other key Democrats in the House and Senate.

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