On his Facebook page, Barry Smitherman, the former Texas Railroad Commissioner who recently left Houston’s Vinson & Elkins, posted a photograph of himself and President Donald Trump.

And shortly after he resigned from V&E in January, reports surfaced that he was under consideration to be the next chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which oversees the oil, gas and electric power industries. Weeks later, Smitherman’s role in the Trump administration remains a question

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