Last month, the Federal Election Commission invited the public to participate in a January 14th hearing on how the agency... View Article
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It's wonder no one ever thought of launching a Fix The FEC campaign before. Thanks to CREW it's been done and you can pitch in to help.
There are so many things wrong with this agency that it would be hard for me to even know where to begin, but CREW is focusing on the lack of commissioners which puts the agency's oversight of the current campaigns at a complete standstill, as in nonexistent. And guess who they are blaming? Yup, none other that Sen. "No-Electronic-Filing-for-Senators" Mitch McConnell. The full background is here.
Use their tool to write to Sen. McConnell and tell him what you think about his holding up a vote on the FEC nominees that have a majority supporting them for their appointment. McConnell has a bad habit of stopping the Senate in any attempt to assure better accountability for its work.
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