Reid to Bush: Drop Von Spakovsky or OK Individual FEC Votes

May 12, 2008, 12:35 p.m.

Senate Democrats have made their next move in the ongoing stalemate involving Federal Election Commission nominees, asking President Bush on Monday to either drop former Justice Department lawyer Hans von Spakovsky or begin persuading Senate Republicans to go along with individual votes to fill the five agency vacancies.



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