{"id":700205,"date":"2025-11-20T23:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/prospective-cftc-chairs-nomination-advances-through-committee\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T23:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:35:10","slug":"prospective-cftc-chairs-nomination-advances-through-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/prospective-cftc-chairs-nomination-advances-through-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Prospective CFTC chair\u2019s nomination advances through committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 15px;width:240px\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjUtMTEvMDE5YWEyYmMtODdhZi03ZGM4LWJiODMtMTQ1NDgzNzFiM2Rh.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\">\n                    <\/p>\n<p>Acting CFTC Chair Caroline Pham may be one step closer to leaving the agency after the Senate Agriculture Committee advanced US President Donald Trump&#8217;s pick to replace her.<\/p>\n<p><p>Michael Selig\u2019s nomination to chair the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission is headed for a vote on the Senate floor after clearing a committee hurdle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a Thursday notice, Republican leaders with the Senate Agriculture Committee <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenateAgGOP\/status\/1991580650105893007\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> they had advanced Selig\u2019s nomination following a Wednesday hearing. The vote was reportedly along party lines, with no Democrats <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BrendanPedersen\/status\/1991580670708306086\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">supporting<\/a> Selig as US President Donald Trump\u2019s pick to replace acting Chair Caroline Pham.<\/p>\n<p>The prospective CFTC chair answered questions from senators on Wednesday regarding potential conflicts of interest, his policy positions on DeFi and digital assets and the dearth of leadership at the federal agency. Coinbase chief legal officer Paul Grewal <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iampaulgrewal\/status\/1991277700619604237\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">supported<\/a> his confirmation, citing Selig\u2019s support for a digital asset market structure bill moving through Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMN63nwsw68G3Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" >General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/michael-selig-cftc-chair-nomination-committee-vote?utm_source=rss_feed&#038;utm_medium=feed%3F_rnd%3Dkdgt58%26__%3D1763670614868%26noCache%3Dtrue&#038;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" >Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting CFTC Chair Caroline Pham may be one step closer to leaving the agency after the Senate Agriculture Committee advanced US President Donald Trump&#8217;s pick to replace her. Michael Selig\u2019s nomination to chair the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission is headed for a vote on the Senate floor after clearing a committee hurdle.\u00a0 In a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":700206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2025-11\/019aa2bc-87af-7dc8-bb83-14548371b3da","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[75422,52214,71511,32681,70934],"class_list":["post-700205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-cftc","tag-congress","tag-government","tag-politics","tag-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}