The U.S. Senate on Friday approved McKenna Long & Aldridge partner Luis Aguilar to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, said he was pleased that Senate Democrats were able to reach a deal with Republican lawmakers and the Bush administration to fill so many positions, Dow Jones reported. Reid said, “We are restoring Democratic representation to the SEC, where it had been absent.”
Aguilar, an Atlanta-based corporate attorney, fills a vacancy created when Roel C. Campos left the SEC last fall.