That non-breaking news comes from the Wall Street Journal's Brody Mullins and Mary Jacoby. They give a positive profile of Donald McGahn, the 40 year-old chairman of the Federal Election Commission, positing that McGahan, a lifelong Republican, has tempered his partisan ideology as FEC chair. This ...

Hold on to your hats, America! The Washington Post's Matthew Mosk reports that the Federal Election Commission now has its full complement of six commissioners. With only two commissioners, the FEC had been without a quorum since December, preventing it from ...

Since the Federal Election Commission was created following Watergate, every single Republican and Democratic presidential nominee has used FEC-authorized funds to run his general election campaign. Until today. The New York Times' Adam Nagourney and Jeff Zelaney report that Barack Obama will continue with ...

With only two of six commissioners, the Federal Election Commission has been dormant for a nearly a year. But it may be about to erupt with decisions that will affect John McCain’s money situation as well as candidates for office across the country.

The Washington ...

Saturday, the Washington Post’s Paul Kane reported that Hans von Spakovsky withdrew his name for a post on the Federal Election Commission. Von Spakovsky’s move could indirectly spell trouble for John McCain. 

For a year now, Senate Democrats have refused to have von Spakovsky lumped together with the three ...

The New York Times’ Michael Luo lays out the high stakes surrounding President Bush’s recent attempts to give the Federal Election Commission a working quorum. Those stakes include the commission being able to give presidential candidate John McCain $85 million in public financing for the general election. It’s ...

Can an agency be something worse than non-functional? Yesterday the Washington Post reported that President Bush nominated three commissioners to run a Federal Election Commission that’s supposed to have six commissioners, but now has two. One problem with the three nominees is that they must be considered as ...

Maybe President Bush finished his morning jog early yesterday. Or a lunch date was abruptly cancelled. Whatever the reason, the Washington Post’s Paul Kane reports that the White House decided to nominate three commissioners to the Federal Election Commission yesterday.

With only two commissioners when ...

In December, John McCain (R-Ariz.) was running a shoestring campaign for president and used the promise of public funding as collateral to get a $4 million loan. Now he’s the likely GOP presidential nominee and has far surpassed the $57 million maximum a candidate can spend under public financing. ...