[PhiKapMom]

Had the same thought and didn't know what this was and then it hit me that I figured these folks were appointed so I scrolled down through the lengthy list of all Bush nominees and found none had been approved by the Senate even though submitted in the spring.

Thanks to daschle we still have a clinton FERC!

[mrsmith]

Pat Wood and Nora Mead Brownell were approved and stated serving in June last year.
After this ruling.

I don't think there's any thing "funny" about the ruling, though in fairness to vmatt, it did sound suspicious.

[deport]

PKM..... you are correct in that at the time this was approved the FERC Commissioners would have been all Clinton Appointees.... Pat Wood and Nora Mead Brownell were confirmed by the Senate sometime around May 25, 2001. This above referenced action was prior to them coming on board.

Interesting little tidbit about Enron and a telephone conversation with Hebert the Chairman that Pat Wood replaced.....

Lieberman, Feinstein ask for FERC ethics review

....Referring to an Aug. 6 General Accounting Office report requested by Lieberman detailing the watchdog agency's investigation of a February phone conversation between former chairman Curt Hebert Jr. and Enron Corporation Chairman Kenneth Lay, the senators observed: "While the GAO concluded it found no evidence that Mr. Hebert or Mr. Lay violated criminal statutes or ethics regulations, the fact remains that GAO confirmed that the Chairman of a Federal Regulatory Commission discussed support for his continued appointment as chairman with the senior official of a major energy company regulated by that Commission. We believe that such behavior undermines the public's confidence in federal regulators in general and in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in particular."

[lewislynn]

Thanks to daschle we still have a clinton FERC!

Nice try, like the IRS, what ever party they belong to, they work under Bush now.

[Jhoffa_]

ks to daschle we still have a clinton FERC!

Oh.. Oh, my..

We have Daschle's partisan obstructionism as a key element in this "scandal"

(LOL!)