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FEC Recusals Irk Watchdogs

By Amy Keller
Roll Call Staff
March 1, 2004, Midnight

The two newest members of the Federal Election Commission have recused themselves from votes on nearly two-dozen enforcement matters combined since joining the watchdog agency just more than a year ago — a trend FEC critics say demonstrates troubling aspects of the agency’s appointment process.

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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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