{"id":189,"date":"2018-06-29T13:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=189"},"modified":"2018-09-06T11:57:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T15:57:28","slug":"commissioner-maffei-departs-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/commissioner-maffei-departs-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner Maffei Departs Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioner Daniel B. Maffei departed the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) today with the expiration of the one-year holdover period from his term\u2019s official expiration on June 30, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioners serve on set five-year terms. Commissioners must be nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate for each term they serve. Commissioners are allowed to stay in their position for one-year past the expiration of their term if their replacement has not been confirmed by the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Maffei joined the Commission on July 18, 2016 after having served as a Senior Advisor at the Department of Commerce and as a Member of Congress representing the 24th and 25th Congressional Districts of New York.<\/p>\n<p>“Commissioner Maffei has been a congenial colleague and constructive participant in the work of the agency during the past two years. I am pleased to have had the opportunity to serve with him on the Federal Maritime Commission. I commend him for his dedication to public service and his work at the FMC was of benefit to American shippers and consumers. I wish him good fortune in his future endeavors,” said Acting Chairman Michael A. Khouri.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Rebecca Dye noted, “Commissioner Maffei has been as asset to the Federal Maritime Commission and I will miss his valuable contributions to our deliberations and decisions. He is a pleasure to work with and I wish him all the best in his future endeavors.”<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued to all Commission employees, Commissioner Maffei reflected on his time at the FMC by stating, “My two years here have been an honor, a pleasure, and a true education in both the importance of international shipping and the very deep structural challenges it faces.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioner Daniel B. Maffei departed the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) today with the expiration of the one-year holdover period from his term\u2019s official expiration on June 30, 2017. Commissioners serve on set five-year terms. Commissioners must be nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate for each term they... <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"\/commissioner-maffei-departs-commission\/\">Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}