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Dim Outlook for 527 Overhaul Bills

By Suzanne Nelson
Roll Call Staff
June 23, 2005, Midnight

With the public’s memories of the 2004 election and the “summer of 527s” fading, a combination of Congressional inertia, partisan calculation and deep philosophical divisions are conspiring to deflate the hopes of those who would like to see the independent political groups prohibited from spending soft money on federal elections.

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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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