From Roll Call: Trevor Potter, a former FEC chairman who is now president and general counsel for the Campaign Legal Center, charged that the proposal was a backdoor attempt by opponents of the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act “to reopen the issue ad loophole” closed by that legislation. “This is the same coalition that opposed the passage of BCRA,” Potter said. What von Spakovsky say to that?

From National Journal's Earlybird: Congress passed major pension legislation designed to assure American workers, including millions of baby boomers nearing the end of their working careers, that the pensions they have been promised will be there when they retire," AP reports. "The Senate, in its last vote before adjourning for a four-week summer break, approved the 900-page bill that compels employers with defined-benefit pension plans to meet their funding obligations and seeks to prevent companies from terminating plans and shifting the financial burden to the taxpayer."

From the New York Times: A federal prosecutor may inspect the telephone records of two New York Times reporters in an effort to identify their confidential sources, a federal appeals court in New York ruled yesterday. [...]

According to BNA: The six-page Feb. 21 letter from Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and ranking Democrat Max Baucus (Mont.)--released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from BNA--posed a broad range of questions to George, including queries related to his vision for the agency, his office hours, how he treats TIGTA employees, and his management style and practices that in part could reveal his leadership