David M. Walker, the comptroller general, is a nonvoting member.
Mr. Edwards, meanwhile, had been appointed to the Howard Brown board in March as a nonvoting member.
The Penobscot and the Passamaquoddy send a nonvoting representative to Maine's state legislature.
In addition, the Chinese State Investment Company will pay $3 billion for a nonvoting stake.
The commission had five members, two Democrats, two Republicans and a nonvoting mediator.
Just last month, with Sister Ruth present as a nonvoting observer, the United Methodist Church defeated three divestment motions.
1Excludes five nonvoting delegates from the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam and a nonvoting resident commissioner from Puerto Rico.
Its terms made Puerto Ricans United States citizens, although they cannot vote in national elections and are represented in Congress by a nonvoting commissioner.
Some of the changes include expanding the size of the board to 15 members from 11, ending term limits for its chairman, and adding the chief executive of the U.S.O.C. as a nonvoting member.
Residents continue to be unrepresented in the U.S. Congress, though in 1970 Congress, which, per the U.S. Constitution, has exclusive jurisdiction over the federal district, established a nonvoting elected delegate to the House of Representatives.
