Instead of trying to come up with new ways to repeatedly express public “disappointment” in the SEC, perhaps the U.S. Senate could simply do its own job and vote on the two nominees that President Obama nominated to join the Commission back in October 2015? Yes? No? Maybe?
As I have been following here for many months, President Obama nominated Hester Peirce and Lisa Fairfax to be SEC commissioners in October 2015 to fill open Republican and Democrat seats on the Commission, respectively. Peirce is currently a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and Fairfax is a law professor at the George Washington University Law School. The story of how basically nothing has happened with their nominations is chronicled here and elsewhere on this site, and is comparable to watching paint dry.
