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Bush Nominates 3 to a Crippled FEC

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Paul Kane
The Washington Post
May 7, 2008

President Bush sent three new nominees to the Senate yesterday for confirmation to the Federal Election Commission, but he refused to yield to Democratic objections on another nominee that have left the agency at a standstill.

With only two of the commission's six members still serving, the FEC has been unable to issue key rulings or initiate investigations into alleged political wrongdoing. Democrats have refused to confirm any new members because of Bush's nomination of former Justice Department lawyer Hans von Spakovsky, whom Democrats accuse of politically enforcing voting rights laws.

 
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