Atkins Cruises Through Confirmation Hearing

Also, nominees Gould and Pettit have easy day; SEC formally drops legal defense of climate regulation; Senate approves resolution to vacate CFPB overdraft rule; FTC Democrats sue over ouster

After today’s short and relatively painless confirmation hearing, Paul Atkins seems primed for a return trip to the SEC – this time as chairman. That notion didn’t sit well with a number of Senate Banking Committee Democrats who tried to hang the agency’s lapses in the lead-up to the financial crisis around his neck like a millstone. But as the nominee …