The phrase "a former commission" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a commission that previously existed or was active but is no longer in operation.
Example: "The report was submitted to a former commission that had been disbanded last year."
Alternatives: "an earlier commission" or "a previous commission".
Mercer Bullard, president of Fund Democracy, an advocacy group, and a former commission lawyer, says that in this case, as in others before, both clearly failed.
"Reformers are almost always wrong," said Bradley A. Smith, a former commission chairman who now leads the Center for Competitive Politics.
"You now have millions of new people who have never heard of the Federal Election Commission engaged in politics through this new medium," said Trevor Potter, a former commission member and general counsel for the McCain campaign.
"The agenda of the Securities and Exchange Commission is in shambles right now," said Donald C. Langevoort of Georgetown University, a former commission official who is an authority on securities and corporate law.
"Tell me what I've got to do, but I've got to have money from him," Erin Kenny, a former commissioner, told Mr. Galardi's associate Lance Malone, himself a former commission member, in late October 2002.
"But it is hard to generalize, because all of these are individual cases," said Kent Barwick, a former commission chairman who is president of the Municipal Art Society of New York.
Ms Thomson is a former commissioning editor at Channel 4 and trained at the BBC as a journalist, skills she drew on while reporting from the scene of the 2007 Cumbria rail crash.
A story of love and loss in Bombay by a former commissioning editor of Elle India has been narrowly installed as the favourite to win a £10,000 literary award for debut novels.
The commission under Obama had sought a $7.1 million penalty against Michaels Stores in 2013 following an earlier recall of vases that shattered in consumers' hands, said Nancy Nord, a Republican and former commission chair with firsthand knowledge of the case, and who considered the amount excessive.
First, President René Préval did not really support it, seeing it as a usurpation of power, several former commission members said.
United Nations inspectors from the former commission list a host of biological agents found in Iraq, including botulinum toxin, anthrax, camel pox and infectious hemorrhagic conjunctivitis virus.
