Donation to the W.R. Poage Legislative Library Spans Decade of Work as Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Washigton, D.C. Oct. 11, 2013 — Mercury is pleased to acknowledge the generous donation by Senior Vice President Fowler West to his alma mater—Baylor University—of a decade’s worth of regulatory-related papers from his tenure serving as Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

The donation of the papers was made to Baylor’s W.R. Poage Legislative Library, which sits on the university’s campus in Waco, Texas. Fowler’s donation to the library includes: speeches he presented, Dissent and Separate Views on cases before the CFTC, pertinent issues of the day heard before the CFTC, and other regulatory efforts.

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