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FEC Reform Would Enshrine Partisanship

Recently, four legislators, unhappy with the Federal Election Commission’s implementation of campaign finance reform, announced their proposal to replace this body of three Republican and three Democratic commissioners with a three-person “Federal Election Administration.” Ironically, the same lawmakers who have castigated the FEC as beholden to partisan interests have now introduced a bill that would reduce the agency to a pawn for the controlling political party.

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Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.
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30 Hill Aides to Know

30 Hill Aides to Know

The clear expectation is Congress will get very little done this election year. But what does get accomplished, at least in the high-profile areas, will largely be the handiwork of an elite group of staffers — who combine policy expertise, political acumen and the trust of their lawmaker bosses to drive much of the legislative agenda.

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