FEC Undermining Campaign Finance Reform, Critics Say

NPR | By Peter Overby

Published November 22, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Advocates of campaign finance reform say the Federal Election Commission has "cut the guts" out of changes imposed after Congress passed the McCain-Feingold measure and its ban on "soft money" in political campaigns. NPR's Peter Overby reports.

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