Senators Delay Crenshaw Vote, Increasing Odds of All-GOP SEC (1)

Democrat Caroline Crenshaw’s nomination to serve another term as a commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission just hit more obstacles after a planned committee vote was postponed.

With few days remaining on the congressional calendar this year to reschedule, the move heightens the possibility of a three-person, all Republican SEC in the early months of the next Trump administration. Crenshaw’s renomination has been in limbo since her term at the agency officially ended in June.

Caroline Crenshaw, nominee to be a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission

Photographer: Ting Shen/Bloomberg

Senate Banking Committee Chair Sherrod Brown initially postponed the vote just minutes before it was scheduled Wednesday morning and after the panel’s ...