Obituary
Ray Baum, 62 and a longtime telecom expert and regulator who was House Commerce Committee staff director, died from complications of prostate cancer Friday at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. He spent "many years fighting cancer" and died surrounded by…
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his family, said committee Chairman Greg Walden, R-Ore. Officials who worked with Baum on Capitol Hill and elsewhere offered condolences, with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai among them. A lawyer, Baum was a longtime Oregon official, including a state legislator and regulator at the Oregon Public Utility Commission, where, Walden noted, "as the lone Republican, he was named" chairman. Baum also worked for the House Communications Subcommittee when Walden was its chair, and in Washington worked for NAB. Baum is survived by his wife, six children and many grandchildren. Funeral is 1 p.m. Feb. 17 in his hometown of La Grande, Oregon, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Stake Center.