Roll Call offers this breaking news report (paid subscription required). A snippet: “Because Congress briefly convened Tuesday in a pro forma session, the commissioners appointed today will be able to serve until the end of the 2007 Congressional session. At that time they will then have to be confirmed by the full Senate and will be limited to one six-year term. Larry Noble, executive director and general counsel to the Center for Responsive Politics, a campaign finance watchdog, expressed concern at the changes, arguing that Thomas’ exit left ‘no more true defenders’ of the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act on the panel.”
Brad Smith, blogging at Division of Labour, is dismayed by the reformers’ dismay. UPDATE: More dismay from James Sample writing Croines at the FEC for Tompaine.com.