| Subject: Electionlawblog news and commentary 7/12/06 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 7/12/2006, 7:17 AM |
| To: election-law |
Here.
Don Simon has written this post for CLC
Blog on the new Shays-Meehan
lawsuit I noted yesterday. Bob Bauer comments on the lawsuit here
and here.
The Initiative and Referendum Institute has issued this
report, "Early Look at 2006 Ballot Measures." Meanwhile, Dale
Oesterle has written The
Risk of Wedge Citizen Initiatives for the OSU website.
Roll Call offers this
report,
which begins: "Reps. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) and Marty Meehan
(D-Mass.), the House sponsors of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of
2002, sued in federal court Tuesday to block the new Federal Election
Commission regulations governing candidate coordination under BCRA."
Roll Call offers this
report
(paid subscription required), which begins: "After weeks without
progress on finishing a lobbying reform bill, Senate Republican leaders
are trying to break an impasse by scrapping controversial language
added by the House that curbs 527 political groups. But House
negotiators so far have balked at this approach, throwing into doubt
prospects for resolving the standoff before the August recess."
Roll Call offers this
report (paid subscription required). See also Leaders
Move Forward on VRA Bill Despite Some GOP Unease in The Hill.
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