Paul Ryan in The Hill:

In my decade-plus as an attorney at the Campaign Legal Center (CLC), a nonpartisan legal organization, we’ve filed dozens of administrative complaints with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) against those we believed to be violating federal campaign finance laws.  Even in the best of times, we’ve waited in excess of 2 years for the FEC to resolve our complaints.  But things at the FEC have gotten much, much worse in recent years.

Since 2011, we’ve filed 19 complaints with the FEC and only four of them have been resolved.  Six complaints that we filed in 2011-12 remain pending before the Commission.  Until May 21, we had no idea what has been causing delay.  At the Commission’s May 21 public meeting, however, we learned the likely source of delay when Republican FEC Commissioner Lee Goodman acknowledged that he’s been exercising his “discretion” to hold up complaints against Republican and conservative groups.