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.