Today, the WaPo highlights the continuing embarassment to our democracy - or, at least, one of those embarassments: no agency to enforce campaign finance laws.
The stalemate over the Federal Election Commission's nominating process, which already has crippled the agency's ability to uphold existing campaign laws, is indefinitely delaying the implementation of a new rule designed to shine more light on fundraising by lobbyists for members of Congress and presidential candidates.
Of course, the hangup is still the highly controversial FEC nominee Hans von Spakovsky. We've asked the presidential candidates and the Senate leaders to end the deadlock over the FEC nominees. No movement. No enforcement of campaign finance laws in a year with record-busting amounts of money being raised.
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