Today’s Roll Call features House Admin Requests BCRA Symposium (which includes information on Thursday’s House hearing on FEC enforcement, a hearing that reform advocates claim they were excluded from) and NRCC Jumps at Chance to Use Earmarking PAC. Readers of this blog know about the FEC’s recent approval of earmarking program of the Democratic group, WE LEAD, to raise money for an eventual presidential nominee. The opinion may have broader implications for fundraising. The article begins: “Though it was ostensibly about the presidential contest, a recent advisory opinion from the Federal Election Commission could significantly alter the way party committees inject themselves into competitive House and Senate primaries.” It explains that the NRCC has already set up such a fund for a Kentucky House race.
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