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Salon: Legal expert: Mitch’s rush to confirm FEC commissioners is aimed at undermining election watchdog
The Senate voted to confirm three new commissioners to the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday after the agency spent years without a quorum or the ability to enforce campaign finance laws. But legal experts expect little to change due to partisan gridlock.
Accountable.US, a progressive government watchdog group, criticized Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for prioritizing the controversial votes over much-needed coronavirus relief that has languished in Congress for months.
“The McConnell Senate still hasn’t passed a pandemic relief bill for hurting families facing hunger and homelessness, but it found the time to pack the FEC with partisans in an apparent effort to let President Trump and allies off the hook for a stack of backlogged potential violations,” said spokesperson Jeremy Funk, in a statement to Salon. “These are the priorities of people who want to leave as big a mess for the incoming Biden administration as humanly possible.”