A Little More Conversation, A Little Less Action at the FEC
via the Sunlight Foundation
After hours of debate, there was little room for compromise between Democratic and Republican members of the Federal Election Commission at the agency’s open meeting on Thursday. The nation’s campaign regulator offered lots of talk, but little compromise — a recurring theme at the divided agency.
Democratic Chair Ann Ravel and Commissioner Ellen Weintraub’s recent petition for their own agency to initiate a rule-making process around dark money, coordinating of outside spending groups with campaign insiders and tougher regulation of foreign political money was met with skepticism from their colleagues on the other side of the aisle.
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