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FEC Reform Would Enshrine Partisanship

By Ellen L. Weintraub
Special to Roll Call
July 28, 2003, Midnight

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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May 22, 2012

Rumi Pazos, 6, and his mother, Christi Funk, from Orange County, Ca., attend a news conference Tuesday in front of the Capitol on the Safe Chemical Act, which would update the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. To support the bill, Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families rallied moms, nurses and cancer survivors to participate in a “stroller brigade” throughout the Capitol complex.

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