“Campaign Finance Onus Placed on Agencies”

Roll Call:“Democrats on Capitol Hill have called for hearings and legislation to rein in unrestricted campaign money, but the real action is at a handful of federal agencies being bombarded with letters from lawmakers, lobbyists and activists. The shift in focus to agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the IRS — not the typical locus of political money fights — reflects a tacit acknowledgement that campaign finance legislation is going nowhere on Capitol Hill.”

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