Fallout from the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision has clouded the outlook for President Obama’s nominees to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Two nominees for the commission saw their candidacies stalled at the committee level this month partly because of a push by Senate Democrats to force the SEC to take on corporate political spending.

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