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Bob Graham appointed to financial crisis panel

Posted Jul 15, 2009 by William March

Updated Jul 15, 2009 at 01:55 PM

Former Florida senator and governor Bob Graham will be one of six Democratic appointees to a commission set up to investigate the causes of the nation’s financial collapse.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced their six appointments to the 10-member Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission today, including former California Treasurer Phil Angelides as chairman.

Besides Graham, the others named were:

• Brooksley Born, former Clinton-era chairwoman of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission

• John W. Thompson, chairman and retired CEO of Symantec Corporation

• Heather Murren, retired managing director for global securities research and economics at Merrill Lynch

• Byron Georgiou, a Las Vegas-based businessman and attorney and a member of the advisory board of Harvard Law School’s corporate governance program

Congressional Republican leaders Sen. Mitch McConnell and John Boehner appointed the remaining four committee members:

• Former Rep. Bill Thomas, a senior adviser at Buchanan, Ingersoll and Rooney and former House Ways and Means Committee chairman

• Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a political consultant, former domestic and economic policy adviser for John McCain’s presidential campaign, former director of the Congressional Budget Office and former chief economist of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers under the Bush administration

• Peter Wallison, co-director for financial policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and former counsel to President Ronald Reagan

• Keith Hennessey, former assistant to the president for economic policy and former director of the National Economic Council