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.