Senate Republicans boycotted a Tuesday vote on President Joe Biden’s nominees to fill vacant seats on the Federal Reserve Board, with GOP opposition coalescing around Sarah Bloom Raskin, the White House’s pick for the Fed’s vice chair for bank supervision. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), who chairs the Senate Banking Committee, postponed a vote on Biden’s five nominees after none of the 12 Republicans showed up for a scheduled vote on Feb. 15. Behind the GOP boycott is concern about the suitability of Raskin, who Biden has tapped for the role of the central bank’s Wall Street regulator. “This isn’t a garden-variety political appointment,” Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) said in a statement explaining the Republicans’ decision not to provide a quorum at Tuesday’s markup. “Her fitness to serve, her judgment, and her probity are of utmost importance because Ms. Raskin is being considered for a 10-year term at the nation’s independent central …