<h2 id="senate-seems-poised-to-push-biden-nominations-through" class="wp-block-heading">Senate seems poised to push Biden nominations through&nbsp;</h2>
<p>Fortunately for the nominees, yesterday&rsquo;s Senate Banking Committee confirmation hearings were largely uneventful.&nbsp;</p>
<p>SEC Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw, up for another term at the securities regulator, flew mostly under the radar. Committee members posed more questions to Christy Goldsmith Romero, President Biden&rsquo;s pick to chair the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Kristin Johnson, put up to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and Gordon Ito, nominated to be a member of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, also faced questions Thursday.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Goldsmith Romero stands to take over the FDIC as the agency faces controversy. A May&nbsp;<a href="https://www.fdic.gov/news/press-releases/fdic-special-review-committee-releases-independent-report-workplace-misconduct" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">report</a>&nbsp;uncovered allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination at the FDIC, raising questions about whether Chair Martin Gruenberg should continue in the role.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The nominee told Senators Thursday she plans for a &ldquo;complete overhaul&rdquo; of the agency should she be approved, including firing employees who have harassed or abused others and implementing a new system for registering complaints.&nbsp;</p>