On this snowy Friday the Federal Election Commission released a Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to solicit comments on the impact of Citizens United on the agency’s coordination rulemaking. The document is here and comments are due Feb. 24, 2010. For context, click here for the original Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and the comments received […]
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Senate confirms new head of GSA Martha Johnson after 9 month delay
What’s the Martha Johnson-Federal Election Commission connection? After nine months of delay, the Senate confirmed Martha Johnson to head up the General Services Administration. The vote was 96-0. The same day Martha Johnson’s name was sent to the Senate for consideration, back in May 2009, John J. Sullivan was nominated to be a member of […]
Warren Rudman on campaign finance reform
Former Sen. Warren Rudman argues that Republicans have lost their way on campaign finance issues in this piece today. It was congressional Republicans who led the 1971 effort to strengthen existing campaign finance law through the Federal Election Campaign Act. After the Watergate campaign finance scandal, Republicans in Congress joined with Democrats to pass far-reaching […]