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Stabenow: Committee to vote on CFTC nominees by end of March

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., said today she expects the committee to vote on three nominees to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission by the end of March.

After a hearing on the three nominees — Timothy Massad for chairman and Sharon Bowen and Christopher Giancarlo for commissioner positions — Stabenow told reporters she sees all three as “very competent nominees.”

She also said all three seemed to understand the issues of end users, a subject that many committee members brought up today.

Stabenow also said she consider it very important for the CFTC to have a full complement of commissioners. It is currently made up of two commissioners serving their terms and one whose term has expired.