Energy Metro Desk Publisher Questions Likelihood of Filling Vacancies for CFTC Commission

In a recent Energy Metro Desk article, publisher and editor-in-chief John Sodergreen discusses the fate of the three-member CFTC Commission, given the current political climate. He questions whether the President will try to fill the two empty seats before the election cycle and whether the GOP-dominated Senate would allow one seat or both to be filled. "Maybe it's time to elevate some senior staffers at the agency to the Big Bench. . . . Greg Mocek gets it, too. He'd be an ideal candidate for the GOP slot. Just saying."

This is an excerpt from the most recent issue of Energy Metro Desk, which is published biweekly by Scudder Publishing Group, an energy trade news publishing company based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.