Commissioner Weintraub's opening statement is here. A snippet: "If someone chooses to challenge this regulation in court again, and I hope they don't, I think we have a common sense, well justified, and eminently defensible position." Adam Bonin writes a post on Daily Kos, FEC: The Netroots Win. A snippet: "Congress is set to reconsider HR 1606, the Online Freedom of Speech Act, this week. Honestly? I don't believe it's necessary now. These FEC regulations give as strong a set of legal protections as we could reasonably expect, and the best thing Congress can do now would be to find ways in the Record to simply affirm that the FEC approach reflects their beliefs, and that the regulations should be interpreted with a bent towards freedom." Differing on this point, Brad Smith writes Pass H.R. 1606 for Redstate.

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