According to the Senate Commerce Committee’s hearings calendar, the committee will be holding a nominations hearing on June 11th at 2:30pm to “consider several nominations.” There are unconfirmed reports that the CPSC’s current Acting Chairman, Bob Adler, who was renominated for a second term as a CPSC Commissioner by President Obama just a few weeks ago, will potentially be among the nominees appearing at the hearing. The calendar notice also states:

It is possible that at some point during the hearing, the Committee will hold a short Executive Session to report out nominations that the Committee has previously considered.

If the Committee also holds an Executive Session, then it is also possible that Elliot Kaye and Joe Mohorovic would be among the nominees the Committee has previously considered who will be reported out of Committee for confirmation by the Senate. It is unknown at this point whether a confirmation vote for all three nominees will occur at the same time or if Kaye and Mohorovic will move on a separate track from Adler.

Either way, Adler is already a sitting Commissioner whose term (with a carryover year) will not expire until October 2015. If Kaye and Mohorovic are confirmed before the August recess as many are expecting, then the Commission will return to five Commissioners for the first time since October 2011 when Commissioner Thomas Moore retired after 16 years at the agency.