Federal Election Administration Act to Replace the FEC

Reform groups urged Senators to cosponsor the Federal Election Administration Act FEAA) being introduced by Senator Tom Udall (D-NM).

The Act provides a framework and the basis for developing a new legislative approach for properly enforcing and interpreting the campaign finance laws and creates a new independent agency to replace the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

From the letter:

The Federal Election Commission is a failed, dysfunctional agency that does not
enforce or properly interpret the nation’s campaign finance laws.

As a result, campaigns, political operatives, parties and independent spenders know they can operate with impunity and without consequences for campaign finance violations. This has created the modern political equivalent of the Wild West without a sheriff. It also means that any new campaign finance laws that are enacted will face the same problem of being undermined by the FEC’s failure to enforce the laws as the current laws.

The groups included Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause, Democracy 21, Issue One, People for the American Way, Public Citizen, Rootstrikers and U.S. PIRG.

CLICK HERE to read the twp page (PDF) letter.











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