By Bo Erickson and Ann Saphir

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Stephen Miran, President Donald Trump’s chief economic advisor, looks set to clear a key hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday as Republicans rush through his nomination to be the Federal Reserve’s newest governor, but lawmakers said getting him in place in time to vote on interest rates next week would be a long shot.

“I think that would be very challenging,” Senator Cynthia Lummis, a Wyoming Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, said about the logistics of Miran getting confirmed by the Fed’s September 16-17 rate-setting meeting. “Even rolling out the new process is going to be taking a lot of time,” she said, referencing a potential change to aspects of the nominations process that Republicans are pursuing.

The banking commit

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