Obama nears FTC picks

The Obama administration has not yet named a chairman for the Federal Trade Commission, despite the widespread expectation among Washington antitrust lawyers that the agency's sole Democrat, Jon Leibowitz, will get the job any day now. There's also another commissioner vacancy the administration will have to fill, but so far, no names have emerged as front-runners for that slot. In the meantime, antitrust lawyers Thursday said there's a rumor that Leibowitz may pick Rich Feinstein to head the FTC's Bureau of Competition, which investigates mergers.