The Senate Rules and Administration panel approved the nomination of Dara Lindenbaum, a lawyer whose clients included the gubernatorial campaign of Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams, to the Federal Election Commission.
The Tuesday voice vote was bipartisan, with ranking Republican Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri among those in his party to support her. Three Republicans said they wanted “no” votes recorded against Lindenbaum’s nomination: Sens. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi and Deb Fischer of Nebraska. Tennessee GOP Sen. Bill Hagerty also voted “no” by proxy.
Lindenbaum, an election lawyer with the firm Sandler Reiff Lamb Rosenstein & Birkenstock, would fill the seat of Steven Walther, an independent who was picked by Democrats. The agency is designed to have three Republican and three Democratic commissioners.
