Senate Panel to Meet on CFTC Nominees as Early as Next Week

The Senate Agriculture Committee plans to meet as early as next week to vote on President Barack Obama’s three nominees to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, according to Senate aides. The panel is expected to meet as soon as Tuesday to sign off on the nomination of Timothy Massad, a senior Treasury Department official tapped to head the agency. It also would vote on the nominations of Sharon Bowen, a partner at law firm Latham & Watkins LLP, and brokerage executive J. Christopher Giancarlo. Mr. Massad was tapped in November to succeed Gary Gensler, who left the agency in early January. The exact timing of the meeting was still being worked out, one aide said. More in the Wall Street Journal here.