For US Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman Rostin Behnam, the irony must have been galling – even if he didn’t show it. As a particularly contentious open meeting of the CFTC on May 10 drew to a close, Democrat commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero appealed to the press not to focus on partisan divisions within the agency. Minutes earlier, Goldsmith Romero had sided with Republicans on the commission to amend a proposed.