K Street Files: Watchdogs Attack FEC

• By Anna Palmer
• Roll Call Staff
• Nov. 30, 2009, Midnight

Ethics reform groups are hitting back against a recent ruling by the Federal Election Commission to relax candidate air travel restrictions. Democracy 21, the Campaign Legal Center and others are trying to devise a strategy to overturn a decision that would allow candidates for Senate, vice president and president to use corporate jets as private air service as long as the candidates say they are traveling for reasons other than their election.