A coalition of good government groups on Monday called on the White House and Senate leadership to restore a quorum at the Federal Election Commission, so it can resume its duties ahead of the 2020 election, and then establish a non-partisan panel to find the rest of the commissioners.
In a letter, the nonprofit Campaign Legal Center, along with 20 other groups, stressed the importance of having a fully functioning agency to enforce the nation’s campaign finance laws, but discouraged a rush to appoint a full slate commissioners who might not be dedicated to the agency’s mission. They offered a counter-approach to a bipartisan group of campaign finance lawyers’ letter to the White House and congressional leaders on Jan. 6 urging officials to “immediately” nominate and confirm the commissioners.
