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BCRA Interferes With Debt-Payoff Plans

By Amy Keller
Roll Call Staff
Oct. 23, 2003, Midnight

If outgoing Sen. Peter Fitzgerald’s (R-Ill.) experience is any guide, retiring old campaign debts appears to be more difficult than retiring from the Senate itself. And campaign finance experts say the business of settling debts for self-financed candidates will get even stickier under provisions of the new campaign finance law.

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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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