Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee boycotted a vote on Tuesday for a batch of five nominees to the Federal Reserve and one to the Federal Housing Finance Agency, denying the committee the quorum necessary to send the nominations to the full Senate.
In prepared remarks at the executive session, committee chairman Sherrod Brown (D-OH) said: “Republicans have walked out on the American people.” Democrats in attendance were similarly scornful of their colleagues’ absence. 
Backed by a razor-thin majority in the Senate, the Biden administration has faced considerable obstacles in filling the ranks of its regulators. But even Kyrsten Sinema, a critical swing vote within that majority, said: “I’m hopeful we can cut through the partisan gridlock, stop the political bickering, and move these nominations forward.”
The planned walk-out attracted an unusual mob of reporters to the Banking Committee’s hearing on stablecoins earlier that day. 
The move followed a month of

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