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America’s election watchdogs are literally arguing over whether FEC commissioners are people
You can’t make this stuff up.
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Federal Election Commission Members Really Don't Like Each Other
Nobody thought the monthly meeting held Thursday by the Federal Election Commission would turn one commissioner to ponder the existential question of whether she was, indeed, a real person. But nothing is out of the realm of possibility in the government’s most dysfunctional and acrimonious body... -
Corporations are people. But are FEC commissioners people too?
The agency instructed to treat corporations as people – at least when it comes to their right to spend money on political speech – isn’t sure if its own commissioners are... -
A little more conversation, a little less action at the FEC
After hours of debate, there was little room for compromise between Democratic and Republican members of the Federal Election Commission at the agency's open meeting on Thursday. The nation’s campaign regulator offered lots of talk, but little compromise — a recurring theme at the divided agency...
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