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Justice Softens Stance on BCRA

By Damon Chappie and Amy Keller
Roll Call Staff
Nov. 17, 2003, Midnight

Senior Justice Department officials said Friday they do not intend to prosecute violations of federal campaign finance laws involving political speech, signalling that the more controversial and complex areas of the new law including the ban on soft money, coordination and issue ads may be off-limits for criminal charges.

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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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