The outgoing chair of the Senate Banking Committee is throwing in the towel on trying to confirm two key Biden administration appointees with just days before the upper chamber is set to leave for the year.

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), who lost his reelection bid last month, set up Banking panel votes for Caroline Crenshaw, a commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), to continue at the SEC, and for Gordon Ito to take a seat on the Financial Stability Oversight Council as its insurance expert.

But the committee canceled the executive session scheduled for Wednesday, which would have come before a general vote on the nominations on the Senate........

© The Hill